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Don’t let constitutional rights be a victim of this virus Caroline Fredrickson, Washington Post How to Prevent a Coronavirus Catastrophe in Jails Aviva Shen, Slate California courts paralyzed by coronavirus, with justice hanging in balance James Queally and Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times How Coronavirus is Disrupting the Death Penalty Keri Blakinger and Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project Colorado Abolishes Death Penalty and Commutes Sentences of Death Row Inmates Neil Vigdor, New York Times I Used to Run ICE. We Need to Release the Nonviolent Detainees. John Sandweg, The Atlantic ‘Unprecedented Times’ Call for Compassionate Release, Advocates Say Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report Pennsylvania Has Few Options to Release Elderly Prisoners as COVID-19 Spreads Joshua Vaughn, The Appeal Fear of...

Don’t Put More People in New York’s Jails During a Pandemic Mara Gay, New York Times Quarantine and the Constitution Kim Wehle, The Bulwark DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico How Much Privacy Are You Entitled to During a Pandemic? Kathryn Waldron, Slate Immigration Courts Are Telling Employees to Come to Work – Ignoring Health Risks and Local Shelter-in-Place Orders Dara Lind, ProPublica Growing Calls To Close Immigration Courts And Release Detainees As Virus Spreads Joel Rose, NPR Police ‘Tread Softly’ in Enforcing Stay-at-Home Orders The Crime Report Enforcing Quarantine: Let’s Find Tools That Don’t Penalize the Poor Emily Mooney, The Crime Report First inmate in California’s prison system tests positive for coronavirus Paige St. John, Los...

‘Complete chaos’: How the coronavirus pandemic is upending the criminal justice system Kristine Phillips, USA Today Coronavirus makes jails and prisons potential death traps. That puts us all in danger Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Police Powers During a Pandemic: Constitutional, but Not Unlimited Damon Root, Reason This Chart Shows Why The Prison Population Is So Vulnerable to COVID-19 Weihua Li and Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project Coronavirus Has Arrived at Rikers Island: Inside New York City Jails, Where the Pandemic Is Set to Explode Nick Pinto, The Intercept A Rikers Island Doctor Speaks Out to Save Her Elderly Patients from the Coronavirus Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker In Prison, ‘Precautionary Quarantine’ is Just Another Name for Lockdown...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: This week, the news has been dominated by the outbreak of COVID-19, and what it means for courts, police, prisons, and the criminal justice as a whole. A piece by Emily Bazelon for the New York Times outlines the risks posed by the virus as some court systems proceed with business as usual. An op-ed in the Washington Post calls on government officials to “take immediate steps to limit the risk posed by mass confinement, including releasing those detained on bail, along with elderly prisoners who pose little danger to the public.”...

ICE to stop most immigration enforcement inside US, will focus on criminals during coronavirus outbreak Maria Sacchetti and Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post Police departments across the nation are changing how they respond during the coronavirus pandemic CNN DC Cops Balance Bravado and Caution During COVID-19 Pandemic Simone Weichselbaum, The Marshall Project Los Angeles Is Releasing Inmates Early And Arresting Fewer People Over Fears Of The Coronavirus In Jails Salvador Hernandez, BuzzFeed News Baltimore State’s Attorney Mosby to stop prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, other crimes amid coronavirus Tim Prudente and Phillip Jackson, Baltimore Sun Months-long death penalty jury trial starts despite coronavirus crisis Susan Greene, Colorado Independent As calls for release of inmates increase, DA’s office argues against...

What Coronavirus Quarantine Looks Like in Prison Christopher Blackwell and Arthur Longworth, The Marshall Project ‘We Are Not a Hospital’: Inside a Prison Bracing for the Coronavirus Danielle Ivory, New York Times Will Rikers Island Free Inmates Because of the Coronavirus? James D. Walsh, New York Magazine Self-Isolation Orders Pit Civil Liberties Against Public Good In Coronavirus Pandemic David Welna, NPR Tracking Prisons’ Response to Coronavirus The Marshall Project American Courts’ Failure to Respond to the Coronavirus Could Be Catastrophic Mark Joseph Stern, Slate We must release prisoners to lessen the spread of coronavirus Josiah Rich, Scott Allen, and Mavis Nimoh, Washington Post Los Angeles DA’s race almost certain to end in runoff between Jackey Lacey and George Gascón James Queally,...