Crime Story Daily

PM Stories After 17 Years, Bureau of Prisons Set to Resume Federal Executions Lauren Gill, The Appeal US Supreme Court halts Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez during legal fight over religious advisers’ access to death chamber Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune The Rape Kit’s Secret History Pagan Kennedy, New York Times ‘Troubling Tableau’ in 11th Circuit’s Prisoner Cases, Sotomayor Says Adam Liptak, New York Times Texas COVID-19 Massacre Marie Gottschalk, In These Times ‘It’s Not Easy Doing Time in Here’: Michael Thompson Shouldn’t Die in Jail for Pot Crimes Tana Ganeva, Reason ACLU sues to stop SBA from denying PPP loans to people with criminal records Jessica Smith, Yahoo! Finance Family of Slain Barnard Student Criticizes Sentence...

PM Stories Supreme Court won’t consider limiting police immunity from civil lawsuits Richard Wolf, USA Today ‘A Shocking Dereliction Of Duty’: Supreme Court Brushes Off Police Immunity Cases Ryan J. Reilly, Huffington Post Golden State Killer suspect DeAngelo could plead guilty, avoid death penalty, on June 29 Sam Stanton and Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee Justice Department Reschedules Federal Executions Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal California prosecutors routinely strike Black and Latino people from juries, report says Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide Timothy Williams, Libby Seline, and Rebecca Griesbach, New York Times Report: Solitary Confinement in US Prisons Spiked by 500 Percent When Coronavirus Hit CJ Ciaramella, Reason As COVID-19 Spreads...

PM Stories Punishment by Pandemic (Arkansas) Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker Birmingham District Attorney Says Alabama Man Who Has Spent Over Two Decades on Death Row Should Get New Trial Lauren Gill, The Appeal Why did the US Supreme Court let Missouri execute Walter Barton? It’s a mystery Dylan Hosmer-Quint, Kansas City Star Second Tennessee execution stayed over coronavirus concerns; Byron Black’s date set for April 2021 Mariah Timms, Nashville Tennessean Florida grand juries are still suspended, stalling murder cases, police shooting probes David Ovalle, Miami Herald Minnesota grants state’s first posthumous pardon to black man in 1920 case that led to lynchings CBS News Law Professor On Misdemeanor Offenses And Racism In The Criminal System Christianna Silva,...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: Policing continued to dominate the news this week as calls for change gained traction. Reason reports that in New York, state legislators voted to repeal a notorious police secrecy law that has hidden misconduct records from the public for decades. The Houston Chronicle reports that Texas police officers will now be required to receive implicit bias training. And on Monday, Democrats in Congress unveiled sweeping legislation aimed at combatting excessive use of force and racial discrimination by police and making it easier to identify, track, and prosecute misconduct. The New York Times...

PM Stories Our False Promise of Justice Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, Democracy Journal There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here’s the proof. Radley Balko, Washington Post The People Who Undermine Progressive Prosecutors Rashad Robinson, New York Times The Case for Federal Criminal Courts – and Sentencing Reform The Crime Report COVID-19 Has Delayed Programs That Texas Prisoners Need to Get Out Michael Barajas, Texas Observer ‘I’m scared every day’: Correctional officers, inmates say Texas prisons botched COVID-19 response Tanya Eiserer and Jason Trahan, WFAA Families Hold Vigil For Inmates Inside Colorado’s Largest Prison, Home To The State’s Biggest Coronavirus Outbreak Sam Brasch, Colorado Public Radio The First Year Out Stephanie Clifford, Marie Claire After controversy, man convicted of killing...

PM Stories Floyd death propels police reformers in key prosecutor races Jeremy B. White, Politico Some of the Charges Stemming From George Floyd’s Death Should Trouble Criminal Justice Reformers Jacob Sullum, Reason New Hope for People Who Claim Racism Tainted Their Death Sentence Joseph Neff and Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project Judge Declares Courthouse Immigration Arrests Illegal in New York Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Judge to ICE: Don’t Ambush Immigrants at New York Courthouses Benjamin Weiser, New York Times 200 Chino inmates transferred to San Quentin, Corcoran. Why weren’t they tested first? (California) Megan Cassidy and Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle Coronavirus detected in San Quentin prison transfers Richard Halstead, Marin Independent Journal Release During COVID-19 ‘Almost Like Being Incarcerated Again’...