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How We Survived COVID-19 in Prison Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project
NY Quietly Stopped Vaccinating People In State Prisons – But Promised To Resume After Questioning Caroline Lewis and Gwynne Hogan, WNYC
NJ lawmakers urge more prisoner vaccinations at facility devastated by COVID Joe Atmonavage, NJ Advance Media
Colorado’s courts grapple with COVID-19 trial backlog that could take years to clear Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post
Jury Duty Is Back, and It Looks Very Different Benjamin Weiser, New York Times
Supreme Court Rules For Worshippers And Against California COVID Restrictions Nina Totenberg, NPR
Supreme Court Rejects Limits on Life Terms for Youths Adam Liptak, New York Times
Court upholds life-without-parole sentence for Mississippi man convicted as juvenile Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog
Brett Kavanaugh’s Opinion Restoring Juvenile Life Without Parole Is Dishonest and Barbaric Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
LA DA Gascón Says It’s Time to Remove Youth Offenders From Career Criminal Law Don Thompson, NBC Los Angeles
A Media Savvy Deputy DA Is Leading a Noisy Crusade Against George Gascón Jason McGahan, Los Angeles Magazine
Left-wing prosecutors hit fierce resistance Holly Otterbein, Politico
‘It’s Not Enough to Be Progressive. You Have to Have Been There.’ Sarah Jones, New York Magazine
After decades in solitary confinement, Brian Nelson got out, became an advocate for prisoners Frank Main, Chicago Sun-Times
How a Leader in Criminal Justice Reform Spends Her Sundays Tammy La Gorce, New York Times
Accused of Murdering Our Son: The Steven Clark Story review – a bizarre yet gripping mystery Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian
The man who stole a hotel Tori Marlan, Capital Daily
AM Stories
COVID in Prison: A Perfect Storm of Cynicism, Distrust, and Neglect Davis Vanguard
In Vermont, Isolating Inmates Kept COVID at Bay, but at a Price Danya Issawi and Derek M. Norman, New York Times
Workers in Pa. prisons, COVID-19 hot spots, aren’t getting vaccinated. Here’s why that’s dangerous. Joseph Darius Jaafari, Philadelphia Inquirer
Inmates sent home amid pandemic may have to return under Trump-era policy Justin Wm. Moyer and Neena Satija, Washington Post
To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up James Kilgore, Truthout
Why “Decriminalizing” Weed Isn’t Good Enough Jordan Weissmann, Slate
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Celebrated 4/20 by Sending 15,000 Marijuana Convictions Up in Smoke Michael Harriot, The Root
Manhattan Is Moving to Decriminalize Sex Work. Kind Of. Carter Sherman, Vice
Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times
In Nation’s Incarceration Capital, a New DA Is Freeing People From Prison Katie Jane Fernelius, The Appeal
Larry Krasner and His Progressive Reforms Face Old-School Challenge in DA Election Brian X. McCrone, NBC Philadelphia
Larry Krasner let a documentary crew into the DA’s Office. Here are its takeaways. Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer
What HBO’s New Crime Show Gets Exactly Right Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic
“People Who Do Harmful Things Are Reacting to Harmful Things”: A Conversation with Marlon Peterson Greg Berman, Guggenheim Foundation
Weed culture. True crime. Bigfoot lore. ‘Sasquatch’ has something for everyone Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times