PM Stories
Reflecting On The Criminal Justice System Deborah Becker, WBUR
The death penalty lost more ground in 2020 – except in the Trump administration Editorial Board, Washington Post
Federal Execution Team Members Are Getting COVID. Secrecy Has Thwarted Contact Tracing. Jessica Schulberg, HuffPost
Vaccine delivered to prison where feds carry out executions Michael Balsamo, AP News
When COVID-19 hits death row Joel Cohen, The Hill
Latest outbreak in a Pennsylvania prison infected more than a thousand, killing 9 Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer
As Coronavirus Cases Surge In Illinois Prisons, Families And Advocates Demand More Action From State Leaders Pascal Sabino, Block Club Chicago
Maryland inmate coronavirus death toll increases to 18 as questions remain over state’s vaccination schedule Phillip Jackson and Hallie Miller, Baltimore Sun
How to save lives in jail right now: Learn from mistakes made in earlier COVID waves Seth Prins, Sandhya Kajeepeta, Brad Maurer, and Kayla Simpson, New York Daily News
Federal appeals court agrees that Dallas County’s bail system denied poor defendants equal rights Kevin Krause, Dallas Morning News
Philly to pay $9.8M to man exonerated who spent 28 years in prison after wrongful conviction for murder Jeremy Roebuck, Philadelphia Inquirer
Alonzo Demetrius: Live From the Prison Nation – a critique of mass incarceration Mike Hobart, Financial Times
AM Stories
How Will We Remember the Protests? Nicole Mo and Myles Poydras, The Atlantic
A ‘Defining Crossroads’ for US Policing in 2020 The Crime Report
After Breonna Taylor Case, Louisville Police Face Precarious Next Chapter Will Wright, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, and Austyn Gaffney, New York Times
Louisville police seek to fire 2 more officers connected to fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor Tessa Duvall, Darcy Costello, and Bailey Loosemore, Louisville Courier Journal
How the LAPD is responding to calls for police reform Today
Columbus’ Policing Problem Goes Deeper Than the Shooting of Andre Hill Aviva Shen, Slate
Minneapolis police involved in first fatality since George Floyd; video to be released John Bacon, USA Today
Minneapolis Mayor Pledges ‘Transparency’ in First Police Killing Since Floyd Death The Crime Report
The Black baseball prospect, the police shooting and the club he never wanted to join Barry Svrluga, Washington Post
2020 saw an unprecedented spike in homicides from big cities to small towns Devlin Barrett, Washington Post
Murder rates have increased, but reporting on crime data is still woefully out of date Jeff Asher and Ben Horwitz, USA Today
In a Year Marked By Death, the Trump Administration Cements a Legacy of Unprecedented Executions Madeleine Carlisle, Time
What Trump’s pardons say about criminal justice Nancy Gertner and Dean A. Strang, Boston Globe
Samuel Little, Serial Killer Who Confessed to 93 Murders, Dies at 80 Neil Vigdor, New York Times