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How Illinois Housing Banishment Laws Push People into Homelessness and Prison Organizers with past sex offense convictions are championing a bill in the state legislature that could end the cycle and ...

Political ads on crime are ubiquitous in this fall’s campaigns for Congress and other top offices. But the elections that will affect policing and the court system most immediately are the local races ...

These offices have wide powers over the scope of incarceration and the conditions of detention, issues that are on the ballot from Tampa and Savannah to Phoenix.