The Continued Calamity at the Border Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker
A year into his presidency, Biden has kept some of Trump’s worst immigration policies in place. Why? Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
Del Rio and the Call for Migrant Justice Alicia Schmidt Camacho, The New Yorker
America’s Toughest Immigration Court (2016) Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project
‘A huge burden’: Bail bonds for detained immigrants higher in Georgia Lautaro Grinspan, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stopping the revolving door of crime: A new Alabama law could let judges set bond in more cases Nicolette Schleisman, WKRG
In Bexar County, a Hybrid Program to Help Indigent Defendants Nili Blanck, Texas Observer
Why the Bill for Miscarriages of Justice Should be Shared by All of Us James M. Doyle, The Crime Report
What’s an appropriate sentence? Truck driver’s 110-year sentence draws scrutiny. Christine Fernando, USA Today
Are Judges Showing Their Political Colors in the Jan. 6 Criminal Cases? Roger Parloff, Lawfare
Hundreds of crimes, little punishment: Inside the sentences since the Capitol attack Nick Niedzwiadek, Politico
January 6 suspects’ DC jail complaints are hypocritical, but they’re not wrong Reginald Dwayne Betts, MSNBC
The Crisis at the DC Jail Began Decades Before Jan. 6 Defendants Started Raising Concerns Madeleine Carlisle, Time Magazine
‘I felt a responsibility to look’: As Guantanamo Bay turns 20, photographers reflect on the US prison’s legacy Lewis Bush, The Art Newspaper
Were Early American Prisons Similar to Today’s? Charles Neal, JSTOR Daily
‘I have a responsibility to speak about it’: a wrongfully imprisoned artist making art from his ordeal David Smith, The Guardian
A 74-Year-Old Black Woman Gets Exonerated After Spending 28 Years in Prison for Wrongful Murder Conviction James R. Sanders, Complex
Sidebar: Exonerated Courthouse News Service
A Nike Executive Seeks a Family’s Forgiveness for a 1965 Murder Jeré Longman and Kevin Draper, New York Times
A Daughter’s Quest to Free Her Father’s Killer Eren Orbey, The New Yorker