The Subway-Crime Death Spiral David A. Graham, The Atlantic
The Grim Journey of the Accused Brooklyn Subway Shooter Paige Williams, The New Yorker
New York Considers Weapon-Detecting Technology for Subway After Brooklyn Shooting James Fanelli, Wall Street Journal
How Long Until New York’s Crime Surge Dents Eric Adams’s Teflon? Chris Smith, Vanity Fair
Criminal justice reform faces buzzsaw as GOP hones its midterm message Marianne Levine, Politico
What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings revealed about Republicans and criminal justice reform Li Zhou, Vox
A Transformative Justice Whose Impact May Be Limited Adam Liptak, New York Times
The Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings May Be Only the Beginning Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker
And a Public Defender for All Sara Mayeux, Inquest
For 20 Years, This Prosecutor Had a Secret Job Working For the Judges Who’d Decide His Cases Billy Binion, Reason
Arizona’s Clemency Board Is Unfairly Stacked With Cops, Lawyers Argue in Death Row Case Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times
Melissa Lucio faces execution in Texas with her guilt in doubt Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune
Incarcerated people forced to wait for trials as San Francisco backlog balloons Brian Osgood, The Guardian
Beyond the count: A deep dive into state prison populations Leah Wang, Wendy Sawyer, Tiana Herring, and Emily Widra, Prison Policy Iniative
Following More Missouri Prison Violence, Rep. Collins Seeks Reform Ryan Krull, Riverfront Times
Why Are We Still Watching Law & Order? Roxana Hadadi and Kathryn VanArendonk, New York Magazine