PM Stories
A Dangerous Moment for the Court Mary Ziegler, The Atlantic
RBG’s Mixed Record on Race and Criminal Justice The Marshall Project
SCOTUS Contender Amy Coney Barrett’s Mixed Record in Criminal Cases Jacob Sullum, Reason
Why Florida’s Felony Disenfranchisement Law Is Worse Than a Poll Tax Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
Mike Bloomberg raises $16 million to allow former felons to vote in Florida Michael Scherer, Washington Post
It’s time to unlock the vote for those on parole Lucius Couloute, CT Mirror
He fought wildfires while imprisoned. California reported him to ICE for deportation Sam Levin, The Guardian
How One Election Might Strike a Blow to Mass Incarceration in Arizona Meg O’Connor, The Appeal
US government executes killer obsessed with witchcraft Michael Tarm, AP News
Autopsies Spark Legal Fight Over Meaning Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment Noah Caldwell, Ailsa Chang, and Jolie Myers, NPR
Prisons Into Hospices Anthony Dixon, Michelle Lewin, Sarah Resnick, and Jose Saldana, n+1 Magazine
No Place To Be Gus Bova, Texas Observer
AM Stories
A Biden Justice Department Would Shift Vastly From Trump’s Sabrina Siddiqui and Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal
Americans Mostly Agree on Policing. The Difference Is Priorities. Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch, New York Times
Some Protests Against Police Brutality Take a More Confrontational Approach Nellie Bowles, New York Times
How a debate over police funding escalated in Norman, Oklahoma – and divided the town Jon Schuppe, NBC News
How Protests Over Police Violence Are Changing A City Where Officers Kill With Near-Impunity John Glidden, The Appeal
Vallejo’s police association says it’s on board with needed reforms. But the union is part of the problem Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle
Boston is set to consider wide scale police reforms. But many of them have been pitched before Milton J. Valencia and Gal Tziperman Lotan, Boston Globe
In Place of Police: The Oregon Experiment Krithika Varagur, New York Review of Books
Police ‘Culture of Urgency’ Faulted in Use-of-Force Cases The Crime Report
Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland Ken Klippenstein, The Nation
Louisville police declare ‘state of emergency,’ restrict downtown access ahead of Breonna Taylor decision Sarah Ladd and Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal
Former Police Chief Named to Assist Probe of Police Shooting of Jacob Blake Joe Barrett, Wall Street Journal
Armed and Black. How a group of men licensed to carry guns say they are seeking racial justice Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times