PM Stories

Race, Disability and Criminal Justice Emily Riley, The Crime Report

A Story of Two Deaths at the Collin County Jail Dalton LaFerney, D Magazine

State lawmakers say city’s solitary confinement overhaul falls short Erin Durkin, Politico

Massachusetts Prison System Sued Over Unreliable Drug Tests That Put Inmates in Solitary CJ Ciaramella, Reason

The Biden Administration Is Rejecting “The War On Drugs” And Turning To “Harm Reduction” Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed News

Treatment for Opioid Addiction, With No Strings Attached (2019) Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project

Doctor Fentanyl Brett Popplewell, Toronto Life

Update: The Case for a New Trial The Intercept

Michigan prisoner seeks release from solitary confinement after 35 years alone Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press

Remy Ma talks new series ‘My True Crime Story’ connecting to her own Jessica Bennett, Page Six

The True Crime Junkies and the Curious Case of a Missing Husband RF Jurjevics, Vice

Prinzhorn’s Art of the Insane Charlie English, New York Review of Books

AM Stories

Why Do Republicans Hate Cops? Maureen Dowd, New York Times

Fourth Police Officer Who Responded To Jan. 6 Attack Dies By Suicide Nick Visser, HuffPost

How Ashli Babbitt went from Capitol rioter to Trump-embraced ‘martyr’ Paul Schwartzman and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post

The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Jane Mayer, The New Yorker

How Pro-Gun Cons Aped Sanctuary-City Libs Alex Dalton, Washington Monthly

Over 1,000 victims, 126 dead, just 2 convictions: 6 years of mass shootings in Chicago Andy Grimm and Tom Schuba, Chicago Sun-Times

Criminal Justice Expert Says Police Intervention Only Part Of Solution To New York City’s Gun Violence Aundrea Cline-Thomas, CBS New York

Opinion: To Improve Public Safety in NYC, Send Fewer People to Jail Jonathan Lippman and Courtney Bryan, City Limits

Brooklyn DA Releases Massive Trove Of Internal Documents On NYPD Misconduct George Joseph, Gothamist

Federal monitors cost millions, with disputed results. Seattle’s police watchdog was a case in point. David Nakamura, Washington Post

From police traffic stops to qualified immunity for officers, 5 ways to reform policing Editorial Board, USA Today

How California Will Investigate Police Killings Jill Cowan, New York Times

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