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PM Stories Federal prisons under national lockdown amid George Floyd protests, most severe restrictions in 25 years Kevin Johnson, USA Today Senators Grill Feds on Inmate Protections During Pandemic Tim Ryan, Courthouse News Lawmakers question federal prisons’ home confinement rules Michael Balsamo, ABC News Give Incarcerated ‘Basic Human Rights’ During Pandemic, Say Families The Crime Report Two-thirds of COVID-19 cases in federal prisons limited to 7 facilities, official says Daniel Uria, United Press International “Juvenile Lifers” Were Meant to Get a Second Chance. COVID-19 Could Get Them First. Eli Hager, The Marshall Project Fed Lawyer: COVID-19 at Federal Jail Worse Than Reported (New York) New York Times First California prison officer dies after contracting coronavirus Luke...

PM Stories The Double Standard of the American Riot Kellie Carter Jackson, The Atlantic The Minneapolis Uprising in Context Elizabeth Hinton, Boston Review The Police Can Still Choose Nonviolence David A. Graham, The Atlantic Facing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond With More Force Shaila Dewan and Mike Baker, New York Times Nation’s Cops Seem Determined To Demonstrate Why People Are Protesting Them in the First Place Eric Boehm, Reason Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong Maggie Koerth and Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project The Law-Enforcement Abuses That Don’t Bother Trump Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes, The Atlantic Trump threatens military action to quell protests, and the law would let him do it Matt Zapotosky,...

PM Stories Prisoners May Hold the Key to Releasing Us from Coronavirus Lockdown Marc M. Howard, New York Times What COVID-19 Prison Outbreaks Could Teach Us About Herd Immunity Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project Is COVID-19 Falling Harder on Black Prisoners? Officials Won’t Tell Us. Maurice Chammah and Tom Meagher, The Marshall Project Coronavirus infection rates in some parts of LA County jails are 40% or higher Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times California Sheriff Refuses to Release People From Jail as COVID Outbreak Rages Mike Ludwig, Truthout Less Than Half a Percent of Pennsylvania Prisoners Have Been Granted Emergency Release During the Pandemic Joshua Vaughn, The Appeal At Angola, Coronavirus Turns Life Without Parole for Selling Weed...

On the criminal justice policy front: The New York Times reports that last weekend, a federal judge in Florida delivered a significant win in the state’s ongoing battle over felony disenfranchisement, striking down a controversial law that severely restricted voting rights for people with serious criminal convictions. The law, enacted in 2018 by a Republican-controlled state legislature, required convicted felons to settle their financial obligations to the court before having their voting eligibility restored. With court debts often totaling in the hundreds or thousands of dollars, and with no system in place for paying, this restriction rendered a majority...

PM Stories National Guard Called as Minneapolis Erupts in Solidarity for George Floyd Matt Furber, John Eligon, and Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times Why does the Minneapolis police department look like a military unit? Philip V. McHarris, Washington Post Police chiefs react with disgust to Minneapolis death, try to reassure their own cities Tom Jackman, Washington Post Police chiefs’ condemnation of George Floyd killing highlights impact of criminal justice reform movements James Queally and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Before George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Police Failed to Adopt Reforms, Remove Bad Officers Jamiles Lartey and Simone Weichselbaum, The Marshall Project Public outrage,...

PM Stories The Death of George Floyd, in Context Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker Minneapolis Police, Long Accused of Racism, Face Wrath of Wounded City Matt Furber, John Eligon, and Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times Minneapolis Mayor Calls For Charges In George Floyd Death Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, Huffington Post The Supreme Court Broke Police Accountability. Now It Has the Chance to Fix It. Mark Joseph Stern, Slate The Pandemic Is the Right Time to Defund the Police Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic Can Procedural Justice Training Reduce Officer Misconduct? Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report Reclassify All Drug Possession Charges as Misdemeanors: Study The Crime Report Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein Series Is a Different Kind of #MeToo Documentary Lili Loofbourow, Slate ‘On the Record’...