Attorney General Pam Bondi sent letters to several California sheriffs on Thursday requesting the names “of all inmates in their county jails who are not citizens of the United States, their ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office later hit back at AG Pam Bondi by referencing the ongoing controversy over the ...

An ICE agent oversees asylum seekers at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City in 2023. Federal authorities on ...

Los Angeles and other California counties were asked Thursday to provide the names of all undocumented inmates in their jail ...

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday requested that the San Francisco sheriff voluntarily provide a list of all inmates who are not citizens of the United States. The Justice Department said it ...

Despite decades of efforts to reform policing in the United States and the massive anti-brutality demonstrations of 2020, police officers continue to avoid prosecution for murder charges and ...

Journalist and legal scholar Jessica Pishko discusses the rise of far-right sheriffs in the US and argues that the office of ...

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, states often make the choice for them. States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t ...

Adapted from The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, which will be published in September by the University of Chicago Press.

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in deciding whether to participate in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. But states increasingly are making the choice for them. More and ...