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Why the Media Wants a Crisis at the Border Alex Shephard, New Republic
What’s Actually Happening at the Border Henry Grabar, Slate
CBP Defends Conditions At Border Detention Centers Amid Upsurge In Migrants Scott Neuman, NPR
Private Companies Maneuvering to Cash In on Biden’s Child Migrant Detention John Washington, The Intercept
How private prisons turned criminal justice into big business Vanessa Taylor, Mic
Clearing COVID-19 backlog in Fulton Courts will cost $60M Ben Brasch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Pandemic jury trials go from the courtroom to a ballroom Shelley Murphy, Boston Globe
Zoom Court Videos Are Making People’s Darkest Hours Go Viral Gita Jackson, Vice
Losing My Mom Was Hard Enough. Prison Made It Unbearable Julia Ann Poff, The Marshall Project
I Survived 18 Years in Solitary Confinement Ian Manuel, New York Times
Proposal would give Alaska juveniles sentenced to life a possible way out of prison Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News
California’s top court ends cash bail for some defendants who can’t afford it Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
Local Leaders Laud CA Supreme Court’s Ruling on Bail in Criminal Cases City News Service
After crime plummeted in 2020, Baltimore will stop drug, sex prosecutions Tom Jackman, Washington Post
Washington State Restores Voting Rights to Those on Probation and Parole The Crime Report
AM Stories
Shootings never stopped during the pandemic: 2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades Reis Thebault and Danielle Rindler, Washington Post
Boulder grocery store rampage follows spike in mass shootings during 2020 Jim Sergent, USA Today
The Atlanta Attacks Came After A Year Of Data Showed Anti-Asian Incidents On The Rise Galen Druke, Nate Silver, and Alex Samuels, FiveThirtyEight
‘Locked Down, Lashing Out’: How COVID Spurred Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report
Calling the Atlanta Shootings a Hate Crime Isn’t Nearly Enough Saida Grundy, The Atlantic
Suburban radicals: Inside the resurgence of right-wing extremism in Orange County Paige St. John, Anita Chabria, Hannah Fry, and Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
New evidence suggests ‘alliance’ between Oath Keepers, Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6 Kyle Cheney, Politico
New Proud Boys Busted for Capitol Riot Have Wild Police Ties Kelly Weill, Daily Beast
The Failure to Police White Nationalism is a Feature, Not a Bug of American Policing Priscilla A. Ocen, Just Security
Former DC police chief: ‘There should be a higher standard for police’ KK Ottesen, Washington Post
Identity crisis: White supremacist, racist American cops must be removed, experts say. It will take resolve. William Ramsey, USA Today
A California City Is Experiencing An Epidemic of Police Shootings – And Many Of The Victims May Have Been Unarmed Brian Krans, The Appeal