In a Q&A, Ben Pogue, who is running to be the chief prosecutor of South Carolina’s Ninth Circuit, discusses how he would confront racial injustice.

The coronavirus and battered economy are focal points in national campaigns. But in many local elections, systemic racism and police reform have emerged as dominant themes.

Joshua Luttrell, the Democratic candidate in Shawnee County’s district attorney race, considers that elected position "the most important position that you never really thought about."Luttrell faces...

The coronavirus and battered economy are focal points in national campaigns. But in many local elections, systemic racism and police reform have emerged as dominant themes.

In four populous districts with open prosecutor elections, debates center on issues such as drug policy, jail capacity, and police impunity.

There is so much at stake this November. Our civil liberties are on the line in races up and down the ballot.

Will demands for law enforcement accountability reach popular tough-on-crime sheriffs? A Florida race offers a test.

Conservative media have turned Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn into a right-wing celebrity despite a long list of scandals on his watch.

When COVID-19 threatened the jail in Tyler, Texas, an activist pressured her sheriff to make change.

Opposition to stay-at-home orders is the latest example of a history of powerful sheriffs, which stretches back to the end of slavery and the settling of the frontier.

But you probably wouldn’t know it, because sheriffs rule them with little accountability. After one man's death in a notorious lockup, residents of a Missouri town fought back.

Here are their stories.