Tarra Simmons lays out why she championed a new law that restores voting rights to people on probation and parole once she joined Washington’s state legislature.
An emboldened progressive majority on Washington State’s highest court struck down a law that criminalized drug possession and expanded restrictions on life without parole.
Advocates stress that automating the expungement process will help protect people with past charges or convictions from the economic devastation of COVID-19.
What newly-appointed G. Helen Whitener does next will shape whether Washington State moves in a more progressive direction.
Elsewhere in legislatures: Montana will stop suspending driver’s licenses over fines and fees, North Dakota reduces marijuana penalties
The new citizenship question and the longstanding practice of prison gerrymandering weaponize the census to change the racial geography of power.
An incoming prosecutor says the job ought to be nonpolitical, but her campaign also illustrated the limitations of this common trope.
Ballot measure would change law that currently makes it nearly impossible to hold police officers accountable for excessive force.
Case seemed to many like a second chance at McCleskey v. Kemp, a U.S. Supreme Court case that severely restricted the ability for minority plaintiffs to succeed on equal protection claims.
Legislative candidate attacked over support for second chances