PM Stories
Let Everyone Vote Ben Burgis, Jacobin
After Years Behind Bars, These Folks Are #FreeToVote Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project
‘I felt voiceless’: Thousands of ex-felons in Florida are voting for the first times in their lives Amber Randall, South Florida Sun Sentinel
Ex-Felons Are Working To Get Out The Vote Among Former Illinois Inmates – And They’re Paying Extra Attention To Judges Pascal Sabino, Block Club Chicago
How one formerly incarcerated man went from never voting to volunteering at the polls Devna Bose, Charlotte Observer
At San Quentin Prison, Men Ravaged by COVID-19 and Decades of Incarceration Hold an Election of Their Own Juan Moreno Haines and Kevin Deroi Sawyer, Solitary Watch
How Do Your Political Views Compare To Those Of People Behind Bars? Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project
How to Tell If the Election Will Get Violent Olga Khazan, The Atlantic
How embattled police plan to guard polling stations on election day Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
Barr Preps Prison Guards to Head to DC for Election Unrest Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast
‘I Am On Your Side’: How the Police Gave Armed Groups a Pass in 2020 Stella Cooper, Evan Hill, Dmitriy Khavin, Arielle Ray, and Drew Jordan, New York Times
They Don’t Trust The Government Or The Police To Protect Them After The Election, So They’re Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands Brianna Sacks, BuzzFeed News
Stopping a movement Reveal
Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
Biden’s Justice dilemma: Unwinding the lock-em-up presidency Josh Gerstein, Politico
‘You are a Black man at all times’: 3 generations tell of their family’s hopes and fears in the Trump era Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times
AM Stories
Ahead of Election, Police Prepare for Violence and Disruption Neil MacFarquhar and Shaila Dewan, New York Times
Black Lives Matter faces test of its influence in election Aaron Morrison, AP News
Trump’s Hard-Line Immigration Policies Go Before Voters Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times
‘I’m not invisible’: Kentucky millennials with felony records head to the polls for first time Chloe Atkins, NBC News
The Dark History Driving Police Brutality Protests In Philadelphia Maura Ewing, Slate
The President’s War on Dissent Is Using Trumped-Up Federal Charges Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
NC police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids Barry Yeoman, Washington Post
North Carolina’s Police Attack on Election Marchers Had a Long History Behind It Julia Craven, Slate
Austin Police Pledged to Stop Using ‘Less Lethal’ Rounds on Crowds. Then the Department Ordered Thousands More. Andrew Weber and Alain Stephens, The Trace
How This Summer Changed – and Failed To Change – American Policing CJ Ciaramella, Reason
Ban on chokeholds, no-knock warrants among bills Northam signed into law Laura Vozzella, Washington Post
St. Louis County police commissioner quits rather than ‘becoming complicit’ in corporate-led police experiment Jeremy Kohler, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Police Response Slowed. The Community Stepped In. Sarah Holder, Rachael Dottle, and Marie Patino, Bloomberg CityLab