PM Stories
Supreme Court Rejects Limits on Life Terms for Youth Adam Liptak, New York Times
The Supreme Court is wrong. Even children who kill don’t deserve life without parole. Austin Sarat, Detroit Free Press
States Should Abolish Juvenile Life Without Parole Nikki Trautman Baszynski, The Appeal
How a ‘Time-Limited’ Approach Can Transform Juvenile Probation Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report
DA George Gascón pushes for bill to eliminate juvenile ‘strikes’ in adult sentencing Steven Rosenberg, Los Angeles Daily News
He was elected to rethink criminal justice. Three months later, LA wants its DA out. Alicia Victoria Lozano, Yahoo! News
DA George Gascón, Survivors Of Violent Crime, And The Meaning Of Justice Trino Jimenez, Witness LA
As calls for criminal justice reform mount, Norfolk will get a new chief prosecutor. Meet the 3 people who want the job. Jonathan Edwards, Virginian-Pilot
Courting The Left in Manhattan DA’s Race Theodore Hamm, The Indypendent
Tahanie Aboushi’s campaign for Manhattan DA is all about *not* prosecuting Vanessa Taylor, Mic
A Better Green Boom Rachel Sugar, New York Magazine
CSI Houston: How a Texas lab has remade the science of forensics Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor
‘Mare of Easttown’: Kate Winslet Takes a Bite Out of Crime Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone
John Wayne Gacy: Inside Peacock’s New True-Crime Docuseries Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone
The Craft of John Edgar Wideman Elias Rodriques, The Nation
AM Stories
The Most Powerful Weapon for Police Reform Is Back James D. Walsh, New York Magazine
Garland Commits to Police Department Probes With Their Voices at the Table Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal
Feds fund mental health crisis teams to stand in for police Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, AP News
‘Gentle Steering of the Ship’: How Keith Ellison Led the Prosecution of Chauvin Tim Arango, New York Times
The Chauvin Verdict Is a Reminder That We Still Need To Abolish Qualified Immunity Billy Binion, Reason
Most officers never fire their guns. But some kill multiple people – and are still on the job. Tim Stelloh, NBC News
7 Deputies Placed on Leave After Fatal Shooting of Black Man in North Carolina Michael Levenson, New York Times
Virginia deputy mistook cordless house phone for gun in shooting of Black man, attorney says Elinor Aspegren, USA Today
After a Black man’s death, a DC street agonizes over the future of policing Justin Jouvenal, Peter Hermann, and Emily Davies, Washington Post
Police Have Killed at Least Five Children in the Past Month Alone Kristin Henning, Slate
One High School, Five Students Fatally Shot Rick Rojas, New York Times
Why Gun Control Is Now a Matter of National Security Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson, Politico
GOP Bills Target Protesters (and Absolve Motorists Who Hit Them) Reid J. Epstein and Patricia Mazzei, New York Times
The Right to Crash Cars Into People Alex Pareene, New Republic
The Power of the Myths Many White People Believe About Policing – and America Nathalie Baptiste, Mother Jones