The Battle for ‘Cop City’ Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone
Diverse Coalition Unites Against Atlanta’s Plan to Build “Cop City” Alexander Lekhtman, Filter Magazine
Massachusetts Candidates Run for Sheriff as Outsiders to Law Enforcement Alex Burness, Bolts Magazine
In St. Louis, a battle is brewing over police accountability Char Adams, NBC News
The Question of Defunding Police Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
How the GOP Helped Biden Turn the Tables on ‘Defund the Police’ Katherine Fung, Newsweek
Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, and Susie Cagle, The Marshall Project
Study: Private Prison Population Peaks in United States Rena Abdusalam, Davis Vanguard
Private prison firm to settle lawsuit over inmate death Jonathan Mattise, ABC News
“Hellholes”: Heat Waves Worsen Conditions in Prisons with No Air Conditioning, Understaffing Democracy Now!
‘I thought I was going to die there.’ What it’s like to live with rising temperatures in prison Hannah Grabenstein and Justin Stabley, PBS
At my son’s prison, it’s 116 degrees Cheryl Smith, Philadelphia Inquirer
Judges behind “kids-for-cash” scandal ordered to pay more than $200M Herb Scribner, Axios
Maryland’s Obsession with Trying Children as Adults J. Brian Charles, Baltimore Beat
Letting Kids Be Kids Elizabeth Letourneau, Inquest
The fight to end juvenile life sentences without parole – which only happen in America Josh Marcus, The Independent
Long prison sentences might cause – not prevent – violent crime. Tana Ganeva, Substack
Editorial: Solitary confinement is torture. US prisons should stop using it. Washington Post
Survivors of Solitary Confinement Tell Their Stories in “The Box” Jackson Vail, The New Yorker
Twenty Years in Solitary – A Play in 20 Acts Alex Friedmann, PEN America