PM Stories
A Year Into The Pandemic, The Incarcerated Among The Most Vulnerable Emily Kwong and Thomas Lu, NPR
What It’s Like To Be Trapped In A Women’s Prison During A Pandemic Michele Scott, Elle
Prisoners And The Pandemic: A Year Into COVID, Crowded Jails Fuel Infections In Ohio Valley Alana Watson, WFPL
Delaware bill would cut jail time during health crisis Mark Eichmann, WHYY
743 Years and 3 Months. 117 Years. 51 Years. Why Are These Men’s Sentences So Long? Tana Ganeva, Reason
Virtually No One is Dangerous Enough to Justify Jail Sandra Mayson and Megan Stevenson, The Appeal
Youth Justice Reforms Offer Model for Ending ‘Merciless’ Punishment of Adults: Paper Emily Riley, The Crime Report
If Cardell Hayes makes bail, he won’t be the first helped by split-verdicts ruling Matt Sledge, NOLA.com
Los Angeles shows us how money and organization can fuel criminal justice reform Chloe Cockburn, Washington Post
Manhattan District Attorney Candidates Throw Out Traditional Playbook Deanna Paul, Wall Street Journal
‘Life Sentences Are Death Sentences’: How This DA Candidate Wants to Decarcerate Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal
St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner: The 60 Minutes Interview CBS News
A look at HBO’s ‘The Undoing’ and bail reform Adam Banner, ABA Journal
The Criminal Minds of Jim and Tim Rachel Monroe, New York Magazine
The Museum of Modern Art Highlights the Ingenuity of Artists Behind Bars Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project
AM Stories
Demonstrators call for justice, reforms a year after Breonna Taylor’s death in Kentucky Amira Karaoud, Reuters
‘Couldn’t possibly be silent’: These women are carrying the torch for Breonna Taylor Chloe Atkins, NBC News
Minneapolis to pay record $27 million to settle lawsuit with George Floyd’s family Liz Navratil and Maya Rao, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Hints of strategy and new revelations in first week of Derek Chauvin murder trial Holly Bailey, Washington Post
Patterns Emerge In Jury Screening For Trial Of Ex-Cop Charged In George Floyd’s Death Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti, HuffPost
Jury System on Trial MSNBC
Three Bullets to the Back: The Striking Silence Around a Police Killing in Small-town Colorado Susan Greene and Priscilla Waggoner, Colorado News Collaborative
The Kentucky Bill That Would Criminalize Words That Offend Cops Also Would Authorize Arrests for Distributing Water Bottles Jacob Sullum, Reason
Extremism in the ranks: some at the January 6 Capitol riot were police, active military Simon Ostrovsky, PBS
Police Shrugged Off the Proud Boys, Until They Attacked the Capitol David D. Kirkpatrick and Alan Feuer, New York Times
DOJ seeks to build large conspiracy case against Oath Keepers for Jan. 6 riot Devlin Barrett, Spencer S. Hsu, Aaron C. Davis, and Tom Jackman, Washington Post
Capitol riot prosecutors ask for delay, citing “most complex” probe in US history Zachary Basu, Axios