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The Disappeared Lise Olsen, Texas Observer
Missouri’s Attorney General is Fighting for the Right to Keep an Innocent Man in Prison Jordan Smith, The Intercept
Police Department Defends Grown Man Beating 14-Year-Old Over Tobacco Purchase Jeremy Stahl, Slate
Judge Grants New Trial for Cleveland Man Who’s Maintained Innocence in 1974 Murder of His Wife After Undisclosed Police Reports Surface Vince Grzegorek, Cleveland Scene
What to Make of Murph the Surf? Brian Burnsed, Sports Illustrated
Will Atlanta child murders ever be solved? Those close to case fear answer is ‘No’ Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times
Review: ‘The Central Park Five’ Turns Injustice Into Opera (2019) Zachary Woolfe, New York Times
HBO’s I’ll Be Gone In the Dark trailer details Michelle McNamara’s Golden State Killer investigation Omar Sanchez, Entertainment Weekly
Tiger King: Nicolas Cage Will Play Joe Exotic in New TV Adaptation Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair
AM Stories
Stopping covid-19 behind bars was an achievable moral imperative. We failed. Radley Balko, Washington Post
A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons The Marshall Project
Conditions within Ohio’s coronavirus-infected prisons described as ‘war zone’ Catherine Candisky, Columbus Dispatch
Inside Division 16, Cook County Jail’s COVID-19 positive detainees say they’re waiting to die Josh McGhee, Chicago Reporter
“I Do Not Want to Die in Here”: Letters From the Houston Jail Ian MacDougall, ProPublica
Texas death row inmates ask to join lawsuit over prison health conditions during COVID-19 pandemic Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle
Philly police resume pre-coronavirus arrest procedures for some non-violent crimes Ellie Rushing and Robert Moran, Philadelphia Inquirer
‘Not acceptable’: Violent arrest raises concerns about NYPD distancing patrols amid coronavirus pandemic Michael R. Sisak, USA Today
Medical Expert: Federal Jail Intentionally Destroying Medical Records and Hiding Extent of Coronavirus Behind Bars Nick Pinto, The Intercept
Prisons Are Coronavirus Hotspots. This Town’s Got Five of Them. (Texas) Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project
Can College Programs in Prison Survive COVID-19? Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project
No phone or email for nearly 4,000 inmates at three federal prisons in effort to fight virus Clare Hymes, CBS News