PM Stories
COVID-19 and the Struggle for Health Behind Bars Homer Venters, Brennan Center for Justice
Why Lockdowns Can’t Protect People in Prison From Deadly Viruses Annalena Wolcke, The Crime Report
SCOTUS deals a gutting blow to federal criminal justice reform Bonnie Kristian, The Week
US urges court to reimpose Boston bomber’s death sentence Alanna Durkin Richer, AP News
Joe Biden’s Craven Death Penalty Reversal in the Boston Bomber Case Austin Sarat, Slate
Biden Could Have Taken the War on Drugs Down a Notch. He Didn’t. Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary CJ Ciaramella, Reason
Democrats Introduce Bill to End the War on Drugs Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone
50 Years Later, a Majority of Americans Want the Drug War to End Mike Ludwig, Truthout
The bogus backlash against progressive prosecutors Radley Balko, Washington Post
Exonerated Defendants Lost 25,000 Years to Wrongful Imprisonment Eva Herscowitz, The Crime Report
Innocent man freed from Angola after more than a dozen years Mike Perlstein, WWL
Long-Buried Secrets: The Serial Killer and the Detective Michael Wilson, New York Times
Victorian Science’s Great Unsolved Murder Mystery Michelle Nijhuis, The Atlantic
AM Stories
2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades. So far, 2021 is worse. Reis Thebault, Joe Fox, and Andrew Ba Tran, Washington Post
One possible cause of the 2020 murder increase: More guns Rob Arthur and Jeff Asher, Vox
Biden calls for gun reform 5 years after Pulse nightclub shooting Ben Leonard, Politico
It Wasn’t Just Another Nightclub Ari Shapiro, The Atlantic
Our Endangered Right to Protest Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Washington Monthly
Michigan GOP and Dems want reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Can it happen? Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press
LAPD shootings of unstable people wielding sharp objects a deadly problem Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times
Chicago cop charged in US Capitol breach, accused of entering a senator’s office Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune
6 Men Said to Be Tied to Three Percenters Movement Are Charged in Capitol Riot Alan Feuer and Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times
Meet the internet sleuths tracking down the January 6 insurrectionists Sara Murray, CNN
Biden Administration Forms Blueprint to Combat Domestic Extremism Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times