PM Stories
The Violent Contradiction of California’s Reliance on Incarcerated Firefighters Ray Levy Uyeda, New Republic
California’s Inmate Firefighters May Soon Be Allowed To Continue Their Careers After Release Scott Shackford, Reason
Returning from prison and jail is hard during normal times – it’s even more difficult during COVID-19 Wanda Bertram, Prison Policy Initiative
COVID-19 Death Rate in Prison Twice That of General Population: Study Nancy Bilyeau, The Crime Report
Advocates, inmates memorialize ‘overlooked’ lives lost to coronavirus behind bars Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post
California’s federal prisons to lift COVID-19 visitor restriction – and workers are worried Kate Irby, Sacramento Bee
ICE Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Raid Homes & Detain Undocumented People Britni De La Cretaz, Refinery29
ICE arrests 2,000 immigrants in largest sweep of the pandemic Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News
Federal court overturns order blocking ICE arrests in Mass. courthouses Jeremy C. Fox and Shelley Murphy, Boston Globe
How America’s ‘criminal justice complex’ locks up people to feed the beast Phil Kadner, Chicago Sun-Times
Gun Laws Are the Key to Addressing America’s Suicide Crisis Chris Murphy, The Atlantic
The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist from the Carnegie Library Travis McDade, Smithsonian
Carceral Aesthetics Rachel Kushner, Artforum
AM Stories
Trump Visits Kenosha, Offering Support for Police With Little Mention of Shooting John Eligon, Julie Bosman, and Peter Baker, New York Times
The Streets of Kenosha and the National Stage Emily Witt, The New Yorker
In Kenosha, unrest surfaces history of anti-Blackness and questions about police spending Carlos Ballesteros and Adam Mahoney, Chicago Reader
Kenosha Police Already Had a Reputation Ray Suarez, Slate
As Guns Get Drawn at Protest Sites, Demonstrators Fear a Volatile New Phase Mike Baker, Julie Bosman, and Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times
How the Fatal Shooting at a Portland Protest Unfolded Evan Hill, Stella Cooper, Drew Jordan, and Dmitriy Khavin, New York Times
Far-Right Militias Are Learning Impunity From the Cops Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic
Justice Department investigates protest leaders, funding in Portland and other cities Kevin Johnson, USA Today
Prosecutors Are Using Gang Laws To Criminalize Protest Ali Winston, The Appeal
Stall tactics. Distractions. Lobbying. How police reform was derailed in California Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times
Detroit protesters file lawsuit over ‘brutal violence’ from police M. L. Elrick, Detroit Free Press
75-year-old Buffalo man shoved by police speaks out on incident after month in hospital Sarah Taddeo, USA Today
Police Have Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Military Fred Kaplan, Slate
How a New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation Jenna Wortham, New York Times Magazine