PM Stories
“Progressive Prosecutors” and the Criminal Justice System Frederica Freyberg, PBS News
A Trump Case Awaits. Who Is the Best Prosecutor for the Job? Ginia Bellafante, New York Times
A Movie Villain on the District Attorney Campaign Trail Peter Canby, The New Yorker
My Parishioner Was Not Sentenced to Death. He Still Died. Steven Paulikas, New York Times
As Texas Enters Another Hot Summer, Lawmakers Kill Effort to Cool Sweltering Prisons Madison Pauly, Mother Jones
Bail Reform Appears On The Verge Of Passage In Texas Legislature Andrew Schneider, Houston Public Media
Bridging the ‘Digital Moat’ Between Prison and the Outside The Crime Report
A Criminal Record Shouldn’t Be a Life Sentence to Poverty Rebecca Vallas, Sharon Dietrich, and Beth Avery, Center for American Progress
Earning Freedom: A Tale of Redemption Behind Bars Julie Reynolds Martinez, The Imprint
Eric Riddick, released after serving 29 years for crime he says he didn’t commit, turns focus to helping others Briana Stewart, Sabina Ghebremedhin, and Zachary Kiesch, ABC News
Julie Mehretu Painting Could Raise $4M for Mass Incarceration Reform Valentina Di Liscia, Hyperallergic
Mysterious Disappearances, Jewel Heists and Creepy Babysitters Tina Jordan, New York Times
The Truck Stop Killer (2012) Vanessa Veselka, GQ
AM Stories
100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like? Caleb Gayle, New York Times
The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre Victor Luckerson, The New Yorker
Victims, shooter identified in Bay Area’s deadliest mass shooting Maggie Angst, John Woolfolk, Aldo Toledo, Julia Prodis Sulek, Robert Salonga, and Jason Green, San Jose Mercury News
‘Enough’: Biden renews calls for gun control bill after San Jose rail yard shooting Dartunorro Clark, NBC News
To Curb Gun Violence, Biden’s Nominee Will Have to Reshape the ATF Alain Stephens, The Trace
Texas Lawmakers Move to Drop Most Handgun Licensing Requirements Neil MacFarquhar and Edgar Sandoval, New York Times
A year after social justice protests, Austin policing reform has slowed amid GOP pushback Ryan Autullo, Austin American-Statesman
Police accountability provisions hold up reform while activists grow frustrated Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN
Police reform in the US: A tale of two Minnesota cities Cinnamon Janzer, Al Jazeera
In Minnesota, move to sidestep locals in prosecuting police Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti, AP News
To reform our police, we have to reform our prosecutors Mary F. Moriary, Washington Post
Police misconduct isn’t just brutality. The Justice Department needs to investigate failures to protect. Jane Manning, Washington Post
Police Overhauls Help Fight Crime, Biden Administration Official Says Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal
What Happened When Evanston Became America’s First City to Promise Reparations Susan Berfield and Jordyn Holman, Bloomberg