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Here’s One Thing Republicans and Democrats Agree On: Criminal Justice Reform Shaila Dewan, New York Times
Prosecutor Election Update: “A Pretty Good Day for Meaningful Change in Criminal Justice Reform” Open File
How crime survivors are boosting the movement for less incarceration Tinisch Hollins, San Francisco Chronicle
LA County Takes First Steps Toward New Youth Justice Department Elizabeth Marcellino, City News Service
Andrew Cuomo Promised Criminal Justice Reforms, But New York Is Still Waiting Rebecca McCray, The Appeal
Life without parole for juveniles isn’t rare in Mississippi, despite Supreme Court ruling Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
I lost seven years to a wrongful conviction. Rosa Jimenez could lose the rest of her life. Hannah Overton, Austin American-Statesman
Can the Sixth Amendment Protect Defendants from Junk Science? Andrew Hamm, The Crime Report
How COVID-19 hurts ‘a second chance at life’ in one of SC’s largest medium-security prisons Jake Shore, The Island Packet
Virus Outbreak at Downtown LA Federal Detention Center Sickens 219 Inmates City News Service
Sick prisoner wrote 17 letters pleading to be freed. COVID silenced him. Rich Schapiro, NBC News
4 deaths in 4 weeks revive questions about how San Diego jails handle inmates Jeff McDonald and Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune
Back in Prison, Transgender Woman Faces an Old Horror, Sexual Assault Shaila Dewan, New York Times
Why My First Thanksgiving in Prison Was The Best One I’d Had In Forever Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project
Undetermined: A suspicious death at Green Lake, an investigation’s limits Daniel Gilbert and Asia Fields, Seattle Times
Tom Brown’s Body Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly
AM Stories
Biden Will Nominate First Women to Lead Treasury and Intelligence, and First Latino to Run Homeland Security Michael Crowley and Jeanna Smialek, New York Times
Biden Has Picked A Cuban Immigrant And Former Obama-Era Official To Lead DHS Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News
Biden seeks to end executions as Justice Department plans 3 more Jacob Knutson, Axios
The Next Attorney General’s Allegiance Must Be to the Rule of Law Ronald Weich and Edgar Chen, Just Security
If Joe Biden Is Serious About Criminal Justice Reform, He Won’t Pick Merrick Garland for Attorney General Damon Root, Reason
Defund-Police Organizers to Biden: “We’re Not Going Away” Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
After decades of quiet, Bay Area prosecutors seek to hold police accountable for on-the-job killings Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle
In a first for San Francisco, DA Chesa Boudin charges police officer who shot Keita O’Neil with homicide Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle
Want To Defund The Police? Start On Campus Sophie Hayssen, Refinery29
The Untouchables: An Investigation Into the Violence of the Chicago Police Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone
A young Black man with autism received a pardon but remains behind bars. It’s time to ‘Free Matthew Rushin.’ Theresa Vargas, Washington Post
‘In response to the moment’: HBO’s ‘Between the World and Me’ reflects summer’s Black Lives Matter protests David Oliver, USA Today
The Sensuality and Brutality of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker