‘I really thought that I was going to die that day’ Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times
When the Rioters Came for Us on January 6 Jamie Raskin, New Republic
The Capitol Rioters, A Year Later Slate
From the Capitol to the city council: How extremism in the US shifted after Jan. 6 Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, NBC News
The Vigilante Next Door Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Homicides rising in Watts, but residents say violence far from the only story Maria L. La Ganga and Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times
New Orleans ends 2021 with most murders in a year since before Hurricane Katrina: ‘Why?’ Ramon Antonio Vargas, NOLA.com
Philly’s homicide crisis in 2021 featured more guns, more retaliatory shootings, and a decline in arrests and convictions Chris Palmer, Philadelphia Inquirer
A Year In, President Biden’s Bold Gun Reform Agenda Remains Largely Aspirational Chip Brownlee, The Trace
The Democrats Need to Start Talking About Police Reform Differently Jakob Cansler, Washington Monthly
Cops’ role in Jan. 6 attack divides Virginia town with ties to Confederacy Devin Dwyer, Elizabeth Thomas, and Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News
A man who served 37 years may be freed after informant said cops provided sex for false testimony Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer
NY prisons used false-positive drug tests to punish inmates, investigation finds Robert Harding, Auburn Citizen
NY Prisons Punished 1,600 Based on Faulty Drug Tests, Report Finds Karen Zraick, New York Times
When A Prison Sentence Of 10 Years And 6 Months Turns Into Forever Jessica Schulberg, HuffPost
Excessive life sentences are Louisiana’s next criminal justice frontier The Advocate
Massachusetts Legislature is pressured to ease burden of criminal records Dan Adams, Boston Globe
‘I’ll never leave your side’: his father’s letters helped him endure 19 years in prison Lolly Bowean, The Guardian
Four Lives: The Real Story Behind The BBC’s Chilling True-Crime Drama Ash Percival, HuffPost
The Hunt for Bible John – is this the best true-crime documentary ever made? Stuart Heritage, The Guardian