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Prisoners May Hold the Key to Releasing Us from Coronavirus Lockdown Marc M. Howard, New York Times
What COVID-19 Prison Outbreaks Could Teach Us About Herd Immunity Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project
Is COVID-19 Falling Harder on Black Prisoners? Officials Won’t Tell Us. Maurice Chammah and Tom Meagher, The Marshall Project
Coronavirus infection rates in some parts of LA County jails are 40% or higher Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times
California Sheriff Refuses to Release People From Jail as COVID Outbreak Rages Mike Ludwig, Truthout
Less Than Half a Percent of Pennsylvania Prisoners Have Been Granted Emergency Release During the Pandemic Joshua Vaughn, The Appeal
At Angola, Coronavirus Turns Life Without Parole for Selling Weed Into a Potential Death Sentence (Louisiana) Tana Ganeva, Reason
A Public Defender Fights to Save His Two Incarcerated Brothers From COVID-19 Jordan Smith, The Intercept
In Prison, Even Social Distancing Rules Get Weaponized Christopher Blackwell, The Marshall Project
Who Wants to Run the Deadliest Big City in America? Theodoric Meyer, Politico Magazine
Baltimore mayoral candidates zero in on violent crime during debate in campaign’s closing days Talia Richman, Baltimore Sun
Campaign Funds for Judges Warp Criminal Justice, Study Finds Adam Liptak, New York Times
Oregon’s top courts begin reversing nonunanimous convictions Andrew Selsky, AP News
The Evidence Against Her Justine van der Leun, Type Investigations
For years they’ve been seen as quiz show criminals. A new TV series may change that Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times
AM Stories
After George Floyd, a Nation in Search of Justice Hugh Eakin, New York Review of Books
Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide Matthew Dessem, Slate
Thousands Protest in NYC, Clashing With Police Across All 5 Boroughs Alan Feuer and Azi Paybarah, New York Times
Scenes from a New York City Protest of the Police Killing of George Floyd Marella Gayla, The New Yorker
Newsom declares state of emergency in LA, deploys National Guard Kevin Rector, Dakota Smith, Kevin Baxter, Leila Miller, Emily Baumgaertner, Matthew Ormseth, and Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times
Legal immunity for police misconduct, under attack from left and right, may get Supreme Court review Richard Wolf, USA Today
The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform Alice Speri, Alleen Brown, and Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept
George Floyd’s death could have been prevented if we had a police culture of intervention Christy E. Lopez, Washington Post
The Only Solution Is to Defund the Police Alex S. Vitale, The Nation
No More Cop Unions Kim Kelly, New Republic
The Anti-Lockdown Protests Prove Police Know How to Treat Protesters Fairly Aymann Ismail, Slate
Target Has a Long History With the Minneapolis Police Aaron Mak, Slate
In Defense of Looting (2014) Vicky Osterweil, The New Inquiry