Eric Holder: William Barr is unfit to be attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., Washington Post
Can We Fix Mass Incarceration Without Including Violent Offenders? Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project
Anyone’s Son Wudan Yan, Longreads
Dallas Has Been Dispatching Social Workers to Some 911 Calls. It’s Working. Lucas Manfield, Dallas Observer
Appeals Court Weighs Authority Of Missouri Prosecutors To Correct Wrongful Convictions Rachel Lippmann, St. Louis Public Radio
To bring a boy’s murderers to justice, a prosecutor wrestled with his own childhood abuse Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times
A Florida inmate wants to describe prison brutality. Why won’t Miami-Dade jail let him? Ben Conarck and Nicholas Nehamas, Miami Herald
Fixing ‘Barbaric’ Prison and Jail Conditions Called ‘Missing Link’ in Reform The Crime Report
Harris County DA Candidate Audia Jones Says She Won’t Prosecute Sex Work Kira Lerner, The Appeal
Texas executed Travis Runnels for a prison murder. His lawyers said false testimony put him on death row. Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune
Peanut King: After 37 years in prison, a giant of Baltimore’s drug trade returns to face his city’s ruins Tim Prudente, Baltimore Sun
The NYPD wants in on the true-crime journalism boom Sarah Weinman, Columbia Journalism Review
True-crime podcast retells the story of Molly Zelko, the mob-busting Joliet journalist who vanished in 1957 Ted Slowik, Chicago Tribune