PM Stories
Experts say mass incarceration crippled US response to COVID-19 Margaret Pfohl, NBC Montana
After rampant COVID cases and mass vaccines, is California’s prison system nearing ‘herd immunity’? Solomon Moore, Mercury News
Many Juvenile Jails Are Now Almost Entirely Filled With Young People of Color Eli Hager, The Marshall Project
Education in Prison: Remote Learning During COVID-19 Has Failed Students Mary Retta, Teen Vogue
Virginia’s incarcerated can now receive Pell Grants. It will benefit everyone. Gerard Robinson and Rebecca L. Watts, Washington Post
To truly reform criminal justice, women need more access to diversion programs Tracie Johnson, Philadelphia Inquirer
Ending private prisons is not enough. Biden must end the business of incarceration. Ashish Prashar, Insider
Bill Would “Sunset” Old Felony Records That Limit Access to Employment, Housing, And Education Taylor Walker, WitnessLA
She Was Imprisoned for Killing Her 4 Children. But Was It Their Genes All Along? Damien Cave, New York Times
Bombs, grift, true crime: Netflix’s Murder Among the Mormons almost had it all Aja Romano, Vox
The Murder Hornets Nature Doc Disguised as a True-Crime Show Kate Knibbs, Wired
The Dissident Is a True Crime Documentary That Works Backwards Olivia Ovenden, Esquire
AM Stories
The House Passed a Bill Named for George Floyd. It Won’t Stop Police Killings. Mike Ludwig, Truthout
Lightfoot unveils search warrant reforms Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times
A Florida Lawmaker Introduced Legislation to Remove Traffic Enforcement from Police Meg O’Connor, The Appeal
A Promising Qualified Immunity Decision From a Potential Biden SCOTUS Nominee Damon Root, Reason
‘Nobody Is in Charge’: Capitol’s Secretive Police Board Faces Overhaul After Riot Carl Hulse, New York Times
US suspends federal agent who joined crowd outside Capitol during rampage, lawyer says Brad Heath, Reuters
Court narrows law used to target white supremacists Josh Gerstein, Politico
How a year ‘like no other’ has weighed on Black police officers Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post
The USA Needs a Reckoning. Does “Truth and Reconciliation” Actually Work? Peter Keating and Shaun Assael, Mother Jones
The Great Art Behind Hunter S. Thompson’s Run for Sheriff Brett Sokol, New York Times
Spike Lee Sees the Parallels Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker