PM Stories
As COVID recedes in prisons, will any lessons learned stick? Katie Park, Keri Blakinger, and Claudia Lauer, AP News
Old People in Prison Were Left to Die From COVID. It Didn’t Have to Be That Way. Lisa Armstrong, Mother Jones
Prisons Have a Health Care Issue – And It Starts at the Top, Critics Say Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project
Teens Can Get Swept Into Adult Prisons. DC’s Attorney General Wants To Change That Carrie Johnson, NPR
California moves to phase out its state-run youth prisons Don Thompson, AP News
Department of Correction moves to end solitary confinement Shira Schoenberg, CommonWealth Magazine
Time to End Crack-Cocaine Disparity Once and For All: Police Group Diane Goldstein, The Crime Report
Bid to Decriminalize Psychedelics Clears Key Legislative Hurdle in California Matthew Renda, Courthouse News
Maine governor faces pressure to decriminalize prostitution Liz Crampton, Politico
Ecocide: why establishing a new international crime would be a step towards interspecies justice Heather Alberro and Luigi Daniele, The Conversation
Bill Cosby released from prison after sexual assault conviction is vacated by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sonia Rao, Paul Farhi, and Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post
Why Did It Take 47 Years to Prove Anthony Mazza was Innocent? Samuel Gross and Ken Otterbourg, The Crime Report
To Shed a Cage Champe Barton, The Trace
A New Lease on Life Ashley Nellis, Sentencing Project
AM Stories
Police Reform On Paper Only Is Meaningless. We Need True Justice Sophia Hall and Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, WBUR
Black Lives Matter leaders met with Biden officials – and they’re disappointed with police reform talks Brian Schwartz, CNBC
Police reform negotiations in Congress are teetering on collapse. Cops may be to blame. Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News
The Damning Truth Behind Cop “Walkout” Stories Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic
Missouri’s New Gun Law Divides Police Luke X. Martin, NPR
Portland, Ore., leaders walk tightrope between calls to defund police, escalating violence Alicia Victoria Lozano and Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News
The continuing GOP fiction that President Biden supports defunding police Glenn Kessler, Washington Post
Biden backs funding more police to fight crime wave BBC News
Defund the police? Actually, police salaries are rising in departments across the United States Laurie Woods, The Conversation
Defunding the Police Is Dead, But Reform Lives On Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
George Floyd’s Death Prompts Police Training to Confront Colleagues’ Misconduct Zusha Elinson, Wall Street Journal
Minnesota Poised to Pass Policing Bill That Would Restrict Asset Forfeiture and No-Knock Raids CJ Ciaramella, Reason
‘All Light, Everywhere’: A Self-Aware Documentary on Police Brutality and On-Going Police Violence Jordan Qin, Hollywood Insider