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Ahmaud Arbery and the Local Legacy of Lynching Jennifer Rae Taylor and Kayla Vinson, The Marshall Project
Breonna Taylor Is One of a Shocking Number of Black People to See Armed Police Barge Into Their Homes Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
Arkansas Grants Parole To Willie Mae Harris Three Decades After She Was Convicted For Killing Her Husband Lauren Gill, The Appeal
A Life Sentence in Arkansas. And a Lifetime of Pain. (2019) Lauren Gill, The Appeal
Two Cops Were Given Qualified Immunity After Allegedly Stealing $225,000. SCOTUS Won’t Hear the Case. Billy Binion, Reason
Our plea bargain system can make the innocent admit guilt. Enter Michael Flynn. George F. Will, Washington Post
What Richard Burr Actually Did Mary Harris, Slate
Police must use new eyewitness ID rules to reduce wrongful identifications (Minnesota) Andy Mannix, Minneapolis Star Tribune
AM Stories
The last days of a covid-19 prisoner Radley Balko, Washington Post
Virus Forces Judges Into Life-or-Death Calls on Inmate Releases Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law
While jails drastically cut populations, state prisons have released almost no one Emily Widra and Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative
Inside New York’s notorious Rikers Island jails, ‘the epicenter of the epicenter’ of the coronavirus pandemic Sonia Moghe, CNN
Virus Raged at City Jails, Leaving 1,259 Guards Infected and 6 Dead Jan Ransom, New York Times
Louisiana Women Incarcerated for Defending Themselves Against Abusive Partners Seek Clemency Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Jerry Iannelli, The Appeal
Oakdale federal prison resumes and expands COVID-19 testing (Louisiana) Nicholas Chrastil, The Lens
Nearly 500 Miami jail inmates, a staggering 41 percent tested, have caught the coronavirus David Ovalle and Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald
Pandemic, social distancing restrictions paralyze Alabama’s criminal justice system Jennifer Horton, WTVY
Judge: BOP hasn’t complied with order to address coronavirus at Ohio federal prison Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com
California Strips Incarcerated People of Complaints Rights During Pandemic Rory Fleming, Filter Magazine
State to exclude Lompoc Prison cases from Santa Barbara County totals (California) Travis Schlepp, KEYT
US Prison Decline: Insufficient to Undo Mass Incarceration Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Sentencing Project
Clean House: Writing and recovery in Sing Sing John J. Lennon, Plough