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PM Stories Paraphrase Sarah Resnick, n+1 Magazine COVID-19 Spurs Call to Reform Prison Health Care Michael Gelb, The Crime Report In the Middle of a Pandemic, Prisoners at San Quentin Are Punished for Being Sick Juan Moreno Haines, The Appeal ‘SOS COVID-19’: Immigrants fear for their lives in Houston detention facilities plagued by virus Olivia P. Tallet, Houston Chronicle No Money For Bail Left 1 Man To Ride Out COVID-19 In Jail Conrad Wilson, Oregon Public Broadcasting Lawyers can’t visit clients in prison, so quit monitoring their emails Catherine Crump and Ken White, Los Angeles Times Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm Kashmir Hill, New York Times He...

PM Stories The Hidden Constitutional Costs of the Carceral System Tahir Duckett, The Atlantic Rural Communities of Color Left Behind by Justice Reforms: Paper The Crime Report Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz, Boston Review California DA threatens whistleblower complaint against public defender over protest blog posts Radley Balko, Washington Post NY’s Legal Limbo: Pandemic Creates Backlog of 39,200 Criminal Cases Alan Feuer, Nicole Hong, Benjamin Weiser, and Jan Ransom, New York Times COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in San Quentin, Corcoran prisons (California) Nate Gartrell, San Jose Mercury News These Political Candidates Are Embracing Their Criminal Records Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project How the...

PM Stories Trump Fires US Attorney in New York Who Investigated His Inner Circle Alan Feuer, Katie Benner, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman, William K. Rashbaum, Nicole Hong, and Benjamin Weiser, New York Times In the crisis at Justice, impartial rule of law is on the line Stuart M. Gerson, Washington Post Why Bill Barr Got Rid of Geoffrey Berman Paul Rosenzweig, The Atlantic Incarcerated Women: Forgotten Victims of COVID-19 Krystin Roehl and Jesse Kelley, The Crime Report Coronavirus Cases Skyrocket at Bay Area Prison After Inmate Transfers Madison Pauly, Mother Jones As Use of Solitary Confinement Surges, Advocates Call for Releasing Prisoners Joshua Manson, The...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: This week, amid ongoing protests, lawmakers around the country continued to implement police reforms. In Minnesota, the governor endorsed a package of sweeping changes, including proposals to revamp oversight and disciplinary procedures and fund community groups that could act as alternatives to police. Reform legislation in Washington, DC will expand civilian oversight, make it easier to fire officers, and tweak rules governing the use of deadly force. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh declared racism a “public health crisis,” announcing plans to reroute $12 million in police overtime spending...

PM Stories Trump Can’t Immediately End DACA, Supreme Court Rules Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear, New York Times For ‘dreamers,’ elation and relief after Supreme Court decision extending DACA Maria Sacchetti and Nick Miroff, Washington Post A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons The Marshall Project The Prison Was Built to Hold 1,500 Inmates. It Had Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases. (Ohio) Dara Lind, ProPublica Thousands are serving life sentences in Louisiana. A new case could give them the chance to appeal. Richard A. Webster, Washington Post The Double Jeopardy Loophole Barry Lam, Slate Which States Are Taking on Police Reform After George Floyd? Charlie Neibergall, The Marshall Project The Plight of the Police Whistleblower Isidoro...

PM Stories “I Begged Them To Let Me Die”: How Federal Prisons Became Coronavirus Death Traps Keri Blakinger and Keegan Hamilton, The Marshall Project Incarcerated, Infected, and Ignored: Inside an Arkansas Prison Outbreak Molly Minta, The Nation Black inmates make up a disproportionate share of Covid-19 cases in prison Alan J. Keays, VT Digger COVID-19 cases double in Alabama prisons over past two weeks Kelley Smith, WHNT Coronavirus Testing Ramps Up in New York – But Not in State Prisons Rosa Goldensohn, The City Texas prisons will accept county jail inmates again, three months after the coronavirus halted intake Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune GEO Group’s Blundering Response to the Pandemic Helped Spread Coronavirus in Halfway Houses Liliana Segura, The...