Why Are So Many Americans Killing One Another? Spencer Bokat-Lindell, New York Times
31 States Let People Carry Guns Without Learning How to Shoot One Jennifer Mascia and Chip Brownlee, The Trace
For one Pasadena neighborhood, gun violence is unrelenting Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times
He Was in Witness Protection in Maine. But His Harlem Life Kept Calling. Ali Watkins, New York Times
The Right Way to Stop Rising Crime in New York Editorial Board, New York Times
Record Levels of Gun Violence and the Democrats’ Dilemma David Rohde, The New Yorker
Criminal Legal Reform One Year Into the Biden Administration Ames Grawert, Lauren-Brooke Eisen, and Jackie Fielding, Brennan Center for Justice
Biden Record on Justice Reform Called ‘Disappointing’ Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report
How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom Eric Reinhart, Slate
Cages in the Coalfields Judah Schept, Inquest
When a prison closes, the town where it sits has a chance for redemption Brian Kaneda, Los Angeles Times
Moving Forward Brad Haywood and Andy Elders, Inquest
Here’s what happens next for unsolved ‘cold case’ killings from the civil rights era Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Elwood Jones is on death row after a divisive 1995 murder trial. But could he be innocent? Amber Hunt, Cincinnati Enquirer
Bureau Of Prisons Begins Implementing First Step Act With Release Of Thousands In Custody Walter Pavlo, Forbes
States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report The Crime Report
After Years Locked Up for Stealing Cold Medicine, Reginald Randolph Is Released Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal
Rahsaan Thomas, the Ear Hustle host, on clemency and life after prison: ‘I want to tell our stories’ Sam Levin, The Guardian
In ‘Devil House,’ John Darnielle’s hero looks for morality in true-crime writing Lily Meyer, NPR
What does it actually mean to be an abolitionist? Lola Christina Alao, Dazed Magazine