PM Stories
Biden Legal Team Decides Inmates Must Return to Prison After COVID Emergency Charlie Savage and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times
ACLU, NAACP among those pressing Biden to grant clemency to inmates sent home during COVID Kristine Phillips, USA Today
How the Federal Government Can Incentivize States To Reverse Mass Incarceration Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Hernandez Stroud, Brennan Center for Justice
Mass incarceration is bad law enforcement policy. It’s bad for the economy, too. Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
4 wealthy donors fuel overhaul of California’s criminal justice system Jeremy B. White, Politico
Recall, George Gascón and the troubles of progressive DAs Los Angeles Times
Criminal justice reform has made Marilyn Mosby a lightning rod in Baltimore, but the prosecutor’s progressive policies are based on research Neill Franklin, Baltimore Sun
DAs have discretion. Use it to decline prosecution in cases that target trans community. Satana Deberry, Justin Kollar, and Miriam Krinsky, USA Today
I was sexually assaulted in prison. Overhaul the system to protect the trans community Grace DeTrevarah, USA Today
Why are wrongly-convicted people still imprisoned in Missouri? CBS News
Fixing America’s Wrongful Conviction Problem Caleb Mills, Geopolitical Monitor
Exonerate or Abolish? Prison Abolition and the Innocence Movement Meera Santhanam, Pulitzer Center
A Personal Story of Justice David Leonhardt, New York Times
AM Stories
Republicans revive soft-on-crime rhetoric amid rise in US homicides Daniel Strauss, The Guardian
What the UK knows about violent crime that the US can’t figure out Gwen Adshead, Salon
Americans Are Worried About Crime, But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Blaming Democrats Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
OnPolitics: Not many Americans believe the police treat people equally Mabinty Quarshie, USA Today
Police officers treat Black and white men differently. You can hear it in their tone of voice Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
What Do Police Know About Teenagers? Not Enough. Meryl Davids Landau, New York Times
He’s 11. By his mom’s count, he’s had more than 30 interactions with armed officers at school. Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat
Illinois becomes first state to ban police from lying to minors during interrogations Chris Boyette, Veronica Stracqualursi, and Hameet Kaur, CNN
Officer reluctance continues to delay new Portland police team to help curb deadly gun violence Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian
San Jose Has Big Ambitions for Gun Control, But How Would the Measures Actually Work? Adhiti Bandlamudi, KQED
Oakland is making its first big investment in holistic approaches to violence reduction. Will it work? Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle
LaTanya Gordon Lost Two Sons to Gun Violence in Three Months. A Year Later, Both Cases Remain Unsolved – a Lack of Closure That Haunts Many Fatal Shootings Josiah Bates, Time Magazine
Arrested and beaten during civil rights protests, she’s 93 and finally telling her story Melissa Scott Sinclair, Washington Post