At 1-Year Mark, Groups Discontent With Biden Justice Reform Sarah Martinson, Law360
Biden’s Low Marks on Crime Are Killing Reform (2021) Zak Cheney-Rice, New York Magazine
Can Criminal-Justice Reformers Adjust to Rising Crime? Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Gun Violence Effects Reach Far Beyond Victims: Study The Crime Report
More Kids and Overwhelmingly Black: New Records Show Concerning Trends in DC Gang Database Chris Gelardi, The Intercept
Baltimore Police Union Blames City’s Murder Rate On Defunding Efforts That Never Happened Tim Cushing, TechDirt
Indiana lawmakers eye returning to more prison sentences WTHI
COVID-19 Outbreak At Cook County Jail Is Biggest Yet As Incarcerated Population Swells To Pre-Pandemic Levels Pascal Sabino, Block Club Chicago
Omicron Has Arrived. Many Prisons and Jails Are Not Ready. (2021) Beth Schwartzapfel and Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project
Covid cases reach a pandemic high at Guantánamo Bay. Carol Rosenberg, New York Times
Documentary provides inside look at COVID-19 conditions in immigrant detention Ivette Feliciano and Zachary Green, PBS News Hour
Can’t pay the court? Go to jail. Debtors’ prison lives on. Tony Messenger, Washington Post
“You Come Out With Nothing”: What It Means to Bring Back the Box at Rikers Victoria Law, The Nation
From solitary confinement to UC Berkeley: a story of redemption (2021) Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle
Redemption is possible, if our laws allow it Tarra Simmons, Seattle Times
Will Charlie Baker commute a convicted murderer’s life sentence?d Matt Stout, Boston Globe
Robert Durst, heir to New York real estate fortune and convicted murderer, dies at 78 Paul W. Valentine, Washington Post
Robert Durst’s Death Comes With a Bizarre Legal Twist Charles V. Bagli, New York Times
Robert Durst: how a murderer’s death keeps his victims from finding closure Dani Anguiano, The Guardian
‘Nothing Will Be the Same’: A Prison Town Weighs a Future Without a Prison Tim Arango, New York Times