With a jury now in place, the murder trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery begins today Christina Maxouris, CNN
Nearly all-White jury in Arbery killing highlights long-standing fears of racial bias in jury selection Silvia Foster-Frau and Hannah Knowles, Washington Post
Let’s Compare the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial to That of the Men Accused of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
The Real Danger of the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Aymann Ismail, Slate
The Right’s Embrace of Political Violence Is Escalating Matt Ford, New Republic
A Bad Election Night for Bids to Transform Criminal-Legal Systems Rory Fleming, Filter Magazine
Police Reform Was On The Ballot — Here’s What Voters Chose In Minneapolis And Across The US Anna Kaplan, Forbes
Voters Send ‘Go-Slow’ Message on Police Reform The Crime Report
Can Voters Even Dismantle the Police? Molly Osberg, New Republic
Portland, Oregon, mayor proposes increasing police budget Sara Cline, AP News
Dramatically increasing incarceration is the wrong response to the recent uptick in homicides and violent crime Anthony Barr and Kristen Broady, Brookings
Is It Time to Rethink the ‘American Way of Punishment’? Stephen Handelman, The Crime Report
The Torturous Death of John Grant in Oklahoma Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic
Another ‘Botched’ Execution in Oklahoma Fuels Outrage Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek
They executed people for the state of South Carolina. For some, it nearly destroyed them. Chiara Eisner, The State
Stabbings at Philly jail went unnoticed amid staff shortages, video shows Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer
After Years of Complaints, the DC Jail Has Been Deemed Too Wretched for Some Inmates CJ Ciaramella, Reason
Is This the Worst Place to Be Poor and Charged with a Federal Crime? Charles Bethea, The New Yorker
Criminal Justice Reform Requires Bolstering the Public Defender Dina Sayegh Doll, Bloomberg Law
The dangerous joke of the Chesa Boudin recall Lincoln Mitchell, San Francisco Examiner
‘You took 32 years of my life’: Freed man accuses LAPD detective of manipulating eyewitness ID Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times
An Ode to Memo, the Cellmate and Art Teacher Who Saved My Life Rafael Rodriguez, The Marshall Project
Introducing Slow Burn Season 6 Joel Anderson, Slate