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Though virus has torn through correctional facilities, most prison workers are declining vaccines Laura Crimaldi, Boston Globe
COVID-19 is rampant in ICE detention facilities. Where’s the vaccine? Bill Ong Hing and Hamid Yazdan Panah, Los Angeles Times
Polis must enact a COVID-19 vaccination plan for Colorado’s hard-hit prisons David Maxted, Colorado Sun
Michigan Prison Reports 90 Cases of Fast-Spreading British Coronavirus Variant Arya Hodjat, Daily Beast
Women, some sick with COVID-19, left ‘freezing’ without heat at Fort Worth medical prison Kaley Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Despite federal and state guidance to reduce jail populations, few inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes have been released early Nausheen Husain, Chicago Tribune
Gov. Greg Abbott prioritized changing how bail is set. He isn’t addressing people stuck behind bars because they can’t afford to pay. Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune
The New Debt Prisons Gene B. Sperling, New York Times
One state looks to be the first to end cash bonds – and the wealth-based system of freedom it creates Safia Samee Ali, Yahoo!
Sentencing Reform Advocates Urge State To Prioritize Incarceration Alternatives Derek Cantú, NPR Illinois
Illinois Set to End Money Bail, Draft New Pretrial Guidelines The Crime Report
Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration Black Voice News
‘The Prison Within’ takes an in-depth look at incarceration and restorative justice Chicago Crusader
In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
AM Stories
Anatomy of an Insurrection Garrett Epps, Washington Monthly
First They Guarded Roger Stone. Then They Joined the Capitol Attack. Christiaan Triebert, Ben Decker, Derek Watkins, Arielle Ray, and Stella Cooper, New York Times
Proud Boys splintering after Capitol riot, revelations about leader. Will more radical factions emerge? Will Carless, USA Today
Pelosi says 9/11-style commission to investigate Capitol riots is ‘next step’ after Trump impeachment trial Ledyard King, USA Today
The agency founded because of 9/11 is shifting to face the threat of domestic terrorism Nick Miroff, Washington Post
Georgia lawmakers eye citizen’s arrest changes, no-knock warrants ban Beau Evans, Moultrie Observer
Inside One City’s Attempt To Defund The Police Audrey McGlinchy, NPR
Attacks in Oakland’s Chinatown spark concern, battle over police budget cuts Jennifer Lu, Los Angeles Times
LA’s deal with the police union would guarantee $245 million in overtime pay David Zahniser and Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times
LAPD Sought Ring Home Security Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests Sam Biddle, The Intercept
The Troubling New Practice of Police Livestreaming Protests Tyler Valeska, Slate
Predictive policing is still racist – whatever data it uses Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review
Police don’t all act ‘the same way’: White officers use force more often, Chicago police study finds N’dea Yancey-Bragg and Grace Hauck, USA Today
‘I am a child!’: Pepper spray reflects policing of Black kids Deepti Hajela and Lindsay Whitehurst, AP News