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The Past, Present, and Future of COVID-19 in California Prisons Heather Harris and Joseph Hayes, Public Policy Institute of California
Did Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown Let COVID-19 Hit Jails Hard? Michael Murney, Dallas Observer
Inmate Deaths In Hawaii Prisons And Jails Are On The Upswing This Year Kevin Dayton, Honolulu Civil Beat
Detroit’s Prison Population Will Soon Be Stuck Living Next to a Toxic Site Adam Mahoney, Truthout
Coerced Out of Justice: How Prosecutors Abuse Their Power to Secure Guilty Pleas Somil Trivedi and Jared Keenan, ACLU
The Power of Prosecutors Lili Loofbourow, Slate
MeToo Doesn’t Seem to Have Changed the Way New York Prosecutes Sexual Assault Marie Solis, Jezebel
‘Nobody Believed Me’: How Rape Cases Get Dropped Jan Ransom, New York Times
The Science of Spotting a Liar Sophie Putka, Discover Magazine
When Your Child Is a Psychopath (2017) Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic
The ‘LA Model’ of juvenile rehabilitation: Great in theory, untested in real life Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
New York project aims to narrow gap between minority versus white juvies sent to community programs, not prison Keith Paul Medelis and Victor Victorio, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Inside a women’s prison in Tbilisi: Olivia Arthur’s best photograph Michael Segalov, The Guardian
The True Story Behind Peacock’s ‘Dr. Death’ Mahita Gajanan, Time Magazine
AM Stories
The Facts Behind the Crime ‘Surge’ The Crime Report
How crime stats lie – and what you need to know to understand them Priya Krishnakumar, CNN
Crafting midterm message, Republicans seize on crime spikes Jonathan Allen, NBC News
‘Lawlessness’: This GOP candidate is testing a tough-on-crime message in New Jersey Daniel Han, Politico
How Democrats could win the public debate on crime Brigid Kennedy, The Week
Biden balances fighting rising crime, reforming police Jonathan Lemire, Michael Balsamo, and Colleen Long, AP News
To fight gun violence, millions directed to community groups Maki Becker and Aaron Besecker, Buffalo News
Is there a better way to police? One California city may have found the answer Juan Carlos Guerrero, ABC7
Illinois is first state in US to ban police from lying to minors during interrogations Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post
A Qualified Immunity Compromise Is Crumbling. You Can Thank the Law Enforcement Lobby. Billy Binion, Reason
The mystery around what happened in Lafayette Square Radley Balko, Washington Post
Father and son police officers charged with joining Proud Boys at Capitol riot Celine Castronuovo, The Hill
US seeks prison term for first felony defendant to be sentenced in Capitol breach, citing domestic terror threat Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post
Can the Black Rifle Coffee Company Become the Starbucks of the Right? Jason Zengerle, New York Times Magazine