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COVID-19 and the Case for Prison Abolition Meera Santhanam, Chicago Maroon
California’s tough-on-crime movement runs into coronavirus, Floyd activism Jeremy B. White, Politico
About 20% of NJ Prisoners Could Be Freed to Avoid Virus Tracey Tully, New York Times
‘Dozens of Prisons’ Targeted in COVID-19 Civil Rights Lawsuits Michael Gelb, The Crime Report
‘I’m going to die’: What it’s like inside a federal prison where 70% have coronavirus (Texas) Tanya Eiserer and Jason Trahan, WFAA
COVID-19 spike causes ‘near-shutdown’ of criminal justice system John A. Torres, Florida Today
Only 7 spectators to be allowed in death penalty murder trial for Fort Worth shooting Mitch Mitchell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
NYC’s 1st Pandemic Jury Trial: Masks, Murmurs, Wary Jurors Frank G. Runyeon, Law360
Justice Department sets execution date for only Native American on death row Jeff Mordock, Washington Times
The Navajo Nation Opposed His Execution. The US Plans to Do It Anyway. (2019) Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project
The Governor Can Demand to Know the Truth in Two Death Penalty Cases (Tennessee) Steven Hale, Nashville Scene
‘Hidden Brain’: How Psychology Was Misused In Teen’s Murder Case Shankar Vedantam, Texas Public Radio
Old Convictions, New Science (2016) Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project
‘Get rid of prisons’: artist Stanley Whitney speaks out against US judicial system in online show Gareth Harris, Art Newspaper
An Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island Parker Field, Brooklyn Rail
AM Stories
The President’s Private Army Elizabeth Goitein, Brennan Center for Justice
William Barr Defends Federal Deployments to Break Up Protests in Tense Hearing Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal
From the Start, Federal Agents Demanded a Role in Suppressing Anti-Racism Protests Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Sergio Olmos, Mike Baker, and Adam Goldman, New York Times
“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights Dara Lind, ProPublica
Videos Appear To Show Federal Officers Shooting And Macing Reporters And Legal Observers, Despite A Judge’s Order Zoe Tillman, BuzzFeed News
NYPD’s Use of Unmarked Van in Arrest Draws Parallels to Portland Mihir Zaveri, New York Times
A Heist on Time and a Half: Inside the Most Corrupt Police Squad in the Nation (Baltimore, MD) Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg, CrimeReads
Boiling Point: Use Of Force Is Embedded In Arizona’s History Matthew Casey, KJZZ
‘One of the worst police departments in the country’: Reign of brutality brings a reckoning in Springfield (Massachusetts) Dugan Arnett and Laura Crimaldi, Boston Globe
Reform Prosecutor in Kansas Excluded From “Objective” Task Force on Policing Jordan Smith, The Intercept
LAPD Officers Charged With Falsifying Gang Records May Upend Criminal Cases City News Service
A Brief History of Dangerous Others Richard Kreitner and Rick Perlstein, New York Review of Books
An Embattled President. A Mass Movement. A Military Used Against Citizens. We’ve Been Here Before. Lawrence Roberts, Mother Jones
Protesters Seeking Justice for Breonna Taylor Have to Convince a Mitch McConnell Protégé Pema Levy, Mother Jones