After Rikers Island Closes, What Will Jail Look Like? Michael Kimmelman, New York Times
Throwaway Kids Laura Bauer and Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star
Curtis Flowers Has Been Granted Bail After 23 Years In Prison EJ Dickson, Rolling Stone
Inside Wayne LaPierre’s Battle for the NRA Danny Hakim, New York Times Magazine
Police Union Chief Claims That Lax Marijuana Enforcement Killed a College Freshman Nick Gillespie, Reason
How to Rethink Drug Dealing and Punishment Zachary A. Siegel, The Appeal
Florida prisons are miserable to begin with. Imagine being locked up and transgender, too. Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald
Model Law Proposes Automatic Expungement of Non-Conviction Records Margaret Love and David Schlussel, The Crime Report
Why some cities and states balk at face recognition tech Matt O’Brien, Associated Press
Scandal Began With Sex Toys. Now Ex-DA Is Convicted on Long Island. Nicole Hong and Arielle Dollinger, New York Times
Court sides with Colorado’s federal supermax prison in censorship case brought by magazine Colorado Sun
The fiercest federal lawman you never knew – and he was African American Sydney Trent, Washington Post
The mystery of the ‘Sunday Bomber’ who terrorized New York Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News
Our 2019 Picks for Criminal Justice in Movies, TV and Podcasts The Marshall Project