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‘Afraid of dying in here’: Inmates fought for COVID-19 vaccinations, protections after jails and prisons failed to protect them Kevin McCoy, USA Today
Study links short stays at Cook County Jail early in the pandemic to the spread of COVID-19 in Black and Latino neighborhoods after inmates’ release Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune
Forgetting And Forgotten: Older Prisoners Seek Release But Fall Through The Cracks Carrie Johnson, NPR
Has ‘COVID Time’ Legislation Worked, and What Does It Mean for NJ’s Criminal Justice Reform Future? Suzette Parmley, New Jersey Law Journal
Adjusting to the Post-Pandemic Courtroom Brad Terrace, The Crime Report
Uncovering the Flaws of Forensic Science WDET
The Worsening Massachusetts Crime Lab Scandal Is Just the Beginning Brandon L. Garrett and Peter Stout, Slate
Why We Need a National Forensic Science Agency Gareth Bryon, The Crime Report
As Mass Incarceration Becomes Less Popular, The Market for ‘Community-Based’ Surveillance Is Booming WNYC
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Must Continue the Work to End Mass Supervision Nikki Trautman Baszynski, The Appeal
Online, Mug Shots Are Forever. Some States Want to Change That. Lindsey Van Ness, Stateline
His mother was a murder suspect. So Bob Calhoun wrote a definitive SF true-crime book Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Life and death in San Quentin: how forgotten photos were turned into art Annalisa Quinn, Financial Times
Invisible Ink Nicole R. Fleetwood, Artforum
AM Stories
‘They Just Launched a War’ J. Lester Feder, Politico
‘Invisible’ Rules for Police Use of Force Encourage Violence: Study Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report
An off-duty officer ‘terrorized’ a family displaying a BLM flag. Police drove him home without arrest. Katie Shepherd, Washington Post
Law Enforcement Groups Drive Anti-Protest Laws, New Analysis Shows Alleen Brown, The Intercept
Efforts to Weed Out Extremists in Law Enforcement Meet Resistance Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times
FBI still after ‘worst of the worst’ in Capitol riot as new arrests come at steady pace Pete Williams, NBC News
Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones
The Vegas Plot (2015) Ashley Powers, California Sunday Magazine
Capitol riot spurred conspiracy charge against 31 suspects, but how hard is it to prove? Bart Jansen, USA Today
The Justice Department Shouldn’t Open the Pandora’s Box of Seditious Conspiracy Joshua Braver, Lawfare
The Man Who Should Be Merrick Garland’s Role Model Andrew Kent, The Atlantic
Bernie Sanders wants to constrain police union negotiating powers Jonathan Swan, Axios
What Policing Reformers Can Learn from the National Push for Education Reform Marc Levin, National Interest