Crime Story Daily

PM Stories Exhausted cities face another challenge: a surge in violence Tom Hays and Colleen Long, Washington Post It’s Been ‘Such a Weird Year.’ That’s Also Reflected in Crime Statistics. Jeff Asher and Ben Horwitz, New York Times ‘It’s Got to Stop’: Atlanta’s Mayor Decries a Surge of Violence as a Girl Is Killed Rick Rojas, New York Times 64 Shot, 10 Dead: Spike in Gun Violence Alarms an On-Edge NYC Ashley Southall, New York Times Is Gun Violence Spike Tied to Rise in Firearm Purchases During Pandemic? Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report How Virginia plans to let people ban themselves from buying guns Graham...

PM Stories How US Prisons Became Ground Zero for Covid-19 Taylor Miller Thomas, Politico COVID-19 Pulls Back the Mask on America’s Prison System CJ Ciaramella, Reason The View From Inside San Quentin State Prison Adamu Chan, Slate Top medical officer for California prisons ousted amid worsening coronavirus outbreak Richard Winton and Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times Gov. Newsom: Sick Inmates ‘Should Not Have Been Transferred’ To San Quentin; Six Inmates Die Of COVID-19 Since Friday KPIX Inmates Hunger Strike In Protest Of Coronavirus Measures (California) City News Service Many Deaths at New York State Prisons Are Preventable, Review Finds Reuven Blau and Carson Kessler, The City He...

PM Stories US Prison Inmate Coronavirus Cases Soar Past 50,000 Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Time ‘Historic health screw-up’: what you need to know about the Covid-19 crisis in California prisons Abené Clayton, The Guardian Fifth CA Death Row Inmate Dies of COVID-19 The Crime Report California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps Ryan Sabalow and Jason Pohl, Sacramento Bee Thousands Of Inmates Quarantined In Eastern Oregon Prison In COVID-19 Outbreak Conrad Wilson, Oregon Public Broadcasting The Supreme Court Still Refuses to Acknowledge Systemic Racism Mark Kende and Dahlia Lithwick, Slate How AI makes policing more racist Vox The Mug Shot, a Crime Story Staple,...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: Politico reports that more than a month after protests against police brutality and systemic racism in law enforcement erupted nationwide, and with federal policing legislation held up on Capitol Hill, reforms at the state level have also stalled. Although state legislators around the country have introduced scores of police reform proposals, very few have actually become law as legislatures begin to adjourn for the year. In Minnesota, where the protests began, legislators introduced dozens of police-related bills, but thanks to partisan...

PM Stories As Congress leaves town, hopes for police reforms fade Jennifer Haberkorn and Elliot Wailoo, Los Angeles Times Getting Judges on the Side of Abolition Matthew Clair, Boston Review How Mandatory Minimums Are Weaponized Sandeep Dhaliwal, New York Times Texas’ police use-of-force tactics scrutinized after George Floyd protests Todd Wiseman, Jeremiah Rhodes, and Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune Boston police once resembled the community. But force has grown whiter as city becomes more diverse Vernal Coleman, Boston Globe He Says a Union Fired Him Over His Push for Police Reform Noam Scheiber, New York Times We Know How George Floyd Died. It Wasn’t From Drugs. Carl...

PM Stories A rural Northern California county had few COVID-19 cases, until an inmate transfer led to a large prison outbreak Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times San Quentin Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike Amid Massive COVID-19 Outbreak Kira Lerner, The Appeal Local lawmakers blast California officials for San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak Don Thompson, Santa Rosa Press Democrat COVID-19 No Excuse for Ignoring Rights of the Incarcerated: Paper Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report These Women Received a Death Sentence for Being Sick In Prison CJ Ciaramella, Reason Should Billy Joe Wardlow Be Executed For a Crime Committed When He Was Eighteen? Lincoln Caplan, The New Yorker What...