PM Stories
This Wrongly Convicted Man Spent 25 Thanksgivings in Prison Charles M. Blow, New York Times
California to Offer Virtual Visits for Prisoners Elliott Davis, US News & World Report
The Man Building the Bridge Between Labor Rights and Criminal Justice Reform Hamilton Nolan, In These Times
Five myths about criminal justice Laurie R. Garduque, Washington Post
40% of inmates in one southern Illinois jail are positive for coronavirus Robert Patrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Coronavirus Cases Spike At Another Massachusetts Prison Deborah Becker, WBUR
How COVID-19 spread through neighboring ICE detention facilities in Eloy Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Pinal Central
Jury duty? No thanks, say many, forcing trials to be delayed Dave Collins, ABC News
The Case Against Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools The Crime Report
How the Criminal Justice System Fails People With Mental Illness Jordan Smith, The Intercept
Oregon Decriminalized Drug Possession. Now It Has to Offer Treatment. Donald Morrison, Wall Street Journal
New program trains non-lawyers to assist asylum seekers who have no legal counsel Danae King, Columbus Dispatch
AM Stories
What Kyle Rittenhouse’s $2 Million Fundraiser Reveals About the Unequal System of Justice in America Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
Kyle Rittenhouse Bought His Freedom. Kalief Browder Could Not. Cori Bush, The Appeal
Trump’s Final Cruelty: Executing Prisoners E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker
William Barr’s Lame-Duck Execution Spree Is Unprecedented Austin Sarat, Slate
Families like this one were torn apart at the border. The US still hasn’t made things right. Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
First Latino tapped to head DHS signals shift from Trump’s hard-line immigration policies Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News
After a summer of protests, Seattle cuts police department budget by nearly 17% David K. Li, NBC News
San Francisco officer is charged with on-duty homicide. The DA says it’s a first Alexandra Meeks and Hollie Silverman, CNN
Former SWAT Group Head Endorses Campaign Zero’s Push To End No-Knock Warrants Ryan J. Reilly, HuffPost
Body-Worn Cameras for NJ Police Signed Into Law Suzette Parmley, New Jersey Law Journal
Black Lives Matter Cofounder Patrisse Cullors On Her Activism – And Art – Beyond Hashtags Brianne Garrett, Forbes
Steve McQueen’s film series ‘Small Axe’ is a powerful act of restorative justice Ann Hornaday, Washington Post