In pictures: Uvalde students return to school CNN
In Uvalde, a 9-year-old anxiously prepares to return to school Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post
Uvalde school year begins amid fear, unfinished security PBS
Texas State Police Deflect Blame, Downplay Their Role in Uvalde Shooting Failures Lomi Kriel and Zach Despart, ProPublica/Texas Tribune
A school shooting shattered a town in 1997. Now the gunman could get parole. Timothy Bella, Washington Post
States Rarely Use Red Flag Laws Amid Shootings, Gun Deaths The Crime Report
Stand Your Ground Laws Are Proliferating. And More People Are Dying. Jonathan Jones, Decca Muldowney, Nadia Hamdan, Farah Eltohamy, and Anya Syed, Reveal
The Victim Who Became the Accused Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker
A Black protester voiced anger at police in South Carolina. She got 4 years in prison NPR
Pregnant Black Activist Now Serving Prison Time Will Have Her Sentence Reconsidered Noah A. McGee, The Root
California Legislature Passes Bill to Expand Prison Releases for Terminally Ill People Piper French, Bolts Magazine
Brooklyn DA to toss 378 convictions in ‘mass exoneration’ Spectrum News
Herman Williams Is Exonerated After Nearly Three Decades of Wrongful Conviction The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project’s First Black Woman Executive Director Talks Transforming The Broken Criminal Legal System Safire R. Sostre, Essence
Fighting an Unjust System, Bail Project Gets People Out of Jail, Reunites Families Stacy M. Brown, Washington Informer