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PM Stories Viral Injustice: How the Pandemic is Unmasking the US Economic, Racial, and Immigration Systems The Intercept Quarantine Could Change How Americans Think of Incarceration Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic New York City Thwarts the Second Amendment Revolution Mark Joseph Stern, Slate When Your Freedom Depends on an App Molly Osberg and Dhruv Mehrotra, Gizmodo DNA points to former suspect in 1985 church murders (Georgia) Joshua Sharpe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution New Podcast Explores Whether the Scorpions Hit ‘Wind of Change’ Was Written by the CIA Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone AM Stories Police officers nationwide need to consider going hands-off during this crisis Rosa Brooks, Washington Post Prosecutors’ Lack of Empathy for Jailed People Now Could Cost Them Later Rory Fleming, Filter Magazine A New COVID-19...

PM Stories Federal trial opens over Florida’s felon voting law Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press A Major Trial for Voting Rights in Florida Is Happening on Video Chat Patricia Mazzei, New York Times Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge to New York City Gun Ordinance Adam Liptak, New York Times Supreme Court dismisses anticipated New York gun rights case because the law in question has been rescinded Robert Barnes, Washington Post Education Dept. expands Pell grant initiative for inmates to take college classes Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post A New Supreme Court Justice Could Swing Criminal Justice Decisions in Washington Kyle C. Barry, The Appeal Why Boredom Affects Us So Much Saida Grundy, The Atlantic Are Joe Massey’s Prison Drawings the Next Big Thing?...

PM Stories Virginia Ends Prison Gerrymandering, the Latest Chapter in a Recent Tidal Wave Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal The Supreme Court Is Split on How to Talk About Race Leah Litman, Slate What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like Caleb Crain, The New Yorker Freddie Gray, Five Years Later Justine Barron, The Appeal He Was Wrongly Imprisoned for 25 Years. It Wasn’t DNA Evidence That Got Him Out. Anna Clark, New Republic The Life and Death of Jerry Givens, Virginia’s Executioner-Turned-Abolitionist Liliana Segura, The Intercept An innocent man spent 46 years in prison. And made a plan to kill the man who framed him. Thomas Lake, CNN ‘Real People Keep Getting Re-traumatized’: The Human Cost of Binge-Watching True Crime Series Melissa...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: The Los Angeles Times reports that on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that state jury verdicts in serious criminal cases must be unanimous. Only two states, Oregon and Louisiana, still allow split verdicts to convict felony defendants – a practice that critics say is rooted in racial, ethnic, and religious bigotry. The Court’s ruling brings an end to those states’ nonunanimous jury systems, and is expected to give several dozen prisoners the right to a new trial. A piece from the New Republic focuses on the broader implications of the Court’s...

PM Stories How to Protect Civil Liberties in a Pandemic Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic The 470,000 Potential Voters Most Likely To Be Disenfranchised Next Election Eli Hager, The Marshall Project Confusion Hampers Coronavirus-Driven Inmate Releases Sadie Gurman and Rebecca Davis O’Brien, Wall Street Journal Federal prison system expands virus testing to find hidden asymptomatic infections Kevin Johnson, USA Today Law Enforcement Leaders Agree: Money Bail Has to End, Especially in a Pandemic Ronal Serpas and Taryn Merkl, The Appeal A Precedent Overturned Reveals a Supreme Court in Crisis Linda Greenhouse, New York Times Why ‘constitutionalist sheriffs’ won’t enforce coronavirus restrictions Zoe Nemerever, Washington Post ‘Mom, I just don’t know how to stay well’: Inside the nation’s worst known outbreak of coronavirus...

PM Stories New York Rolled Back Bail Reform. What Will The Rest Of The Country Do? Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project New York Tried to Get Rid of Bail. Then the Backlash Came. Jamiles Lartey, Politico Magazine The Supreme Court’s War Over Jury Trials Could Change Everything Matt Ford, New Republic The Important First Amendment Principle Now at Risk Garrett Epps, The Atlantic LAPD will end controversial program that aimed to predict where crimes would occur Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times What You Need To Know About Predictive Policing (2016) Blair Hickman, The Marshall Project How Oklahoma Popped Its Prison Bubble, In Charts Taylor Miller Thomas and Megan McCrink, Politico Magazine The Wire Forever: David Simon on the Quarantine...