PM Stories
COVID-19 Recedes In Prisons, But Conditions Could Spell Future Outbreaks NPR
Decreasing the Jail Population Doesn’t Mean Less Safety, New Study Finds Rayna Reid, Essence
When Will Joe Biden Start Using His Clemency Powers? Zak Cheney-Rice, New York Magazine
DOJ Suspends Federal Executions – But Activists Say Biden Should Go Further Chris Walker, Truthout
Advocates Say the Biden Administration’s Execution Moratorium Doesn’t Go Far Enough Nathalie Baptiste, Mother Jones
Alvin Bragg Set to Become Manhattan’s First Black District Attorney James D. Walsh, New York Magazine
Former Incarceree Named First NYC Deputy Jail Commissioner The Crime Report
Man serving life for water pistol robbery gets clemency nod Washington Post
Bill Cosby, Free but Not Exonerated, Faces an Uncertain Future Graham Bowley and Julia Jacobs, New York Times
Who Our Legal System Serves Amber Tamblyn, New York Magazine
Netflix’s Newest True Crime Show Wrestles With The Allure Of The Dead White Woman Alessa Dominguez, BuzzFeed News
Review: Documentary ‘The Phantom’ finds injustice on the streets of Corpus Christi Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times
Murder Is My Business Caroline Fraser, New York Review of Books
AM Stories
The Long Authoritarian History of the Capitol Riot Rick Perlstein, New York Magazine
US arrests more than a dozen in Capitol riot, among the most made public in a single day Spencer S. Hsu and Rachel Weiner, Washington Post
The First Glimmer of Accountability Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic
Northern California city passes law requiring gun owners to carry liability insurance Elinor Aspegren, USA Today
More People Are Buying Guns. Fewer People Are Getting Background Checks. Joshua Eaton, FiveThirtyEight
California homicides jump 31% in 2020, reaching highest total in 13 years Los Angeles Times
Progressives Don’t Need to Downplay Rising Homicides Eric Levitz, New York Magazine
Concern over crime is growing – but Americans don’t just want more police, Post-ABC poll shows Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Scott Clement, Washington Post
Stop Blaming Crime Rates on Defunding the Police Nathalie Baptiste, Mother Jones
How India Walton Convinced Buffalo Voters They Wanted Police Reform Danielle Tcholakian, New York Magazine
Freddie Gray case fallout has put Baltimore ‘ahead of the game’ with police reform. There’s much work still to be done Emma Tucker, CNN