Crime Story Daily

How Do You Prove You’re Innocent If You’re On Death Row? Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project I’m a Police Chief. We Need to Change How Officers View Their Guns. Brandon del Pozo, New York Times The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints for Years Alice Speri, The Intercept Why Prisoners Get the Doctors No One Else Wants Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, Type Investigations How District Attorney Jackie Lacey Failed Los Angeles Jessica Pishko, The Appeal Georgia executes man for store clerk’s killing in 1994 Jeff Amy, Associated Press Muslim Survivors Of Domestic Violence Need You To Listen Rowaida Abdelaziz, Huffington Post Prisoner Risk Algorithm Could Program in Racism Crofton Black, Bureau of Investigative Journalism A Legacy Of Torture Is Preventing Trials At...

Hate-Crime Violence Hits 16-Year High, FBI Reports Adeel Hassan, New York Times Hundreds of victims’ relatives, ex-officials ask Trump administration to halt federal executions Mark Berman, Washington Post What I Think About When I Think About Freedom John J. Lennon, The Marshall Project Can Restorative Justice Go Mainstream? Lauren Sonnenberg, The Crime Report As execution nears, co-defendant says condemned man likely isn’t killer (Georgia) Joshua Sharpe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution He was one of the first prisoners released under Trump’s criminal justice reform law. Now he’s accused of murder. David Shortell and Jason Carroll, CNN As prosecutors take larger role in reversing wrongful convictions, Philadelphia DA exonerates 10 men wrongly imprisoned for murder Tom Jackman, Washington Post Can The Right...

These prosecutors won office vowing to fight the system. Now, the system is fighting back. Mark Berman, Washington Post Prosecutor Elections Now a Front Line in the Justice Wars Paige St. John and Abbie Vansickle, The Marshall Project Ex-felons allowed to vote? Floridians said yes, but it may not be so simple Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times New York’s Jails Are Failing. Is the Answer 3,600 Miles Away? Henrik Pryser Libell and Matthew Haag, New York Times Inside the decline of rural America’s police force and its pipeline of new recruits NBC News Houston Tries to Banish Sex Workers Roxanna Asgarian, Slate What Chicago can learn from Los Angeles about reducing gun violence Arne Duncan, Chicago Sun-Times NYPD Officers Fired...

Progressive lawyer wins San Francisco district attorney race, continuing national reform trend Derek Hawkins, Washington Post New SF DA Chesa Boudin wants to transform system: ‘A lot of work to be done’ Evan Sernoffsky, San Francisco Chronicle Texas Prepares to Execute Rodney Reed Amid a Flood of New Evidence Pointing to His Innocence Jordan Smith, The Intercept New DNA Evidence Likely Exonerates a Texas Death Row Inmate. The Government Won’t Test It. Billy Binion, Reason ‘A Proud Day’: Ex-Felons Clear Final Hurdle to Vote (Florida) Patricia Mazzei, New York Times California’s Criminal Cops: Who they are, what they did, why some are still working Robert Lewis, David Debolt, Jason Paladino, Katey Rusch, Laurence du Sault...

Trump boasts that his landmark law is freeing these inmates. His Justice Department wants them to stay in prison. Neena Satija, Wesley Lowery, and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post Why 7 Police Officers Were Blacklisted in Brooklyn Joseph Goldstein, New York Times Eddie Johnson, who steadied CPD after the Laquan McDonald scandal, to retire as Chicago’s top cop Jeremy Gorner and Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune LAPD will inspect random body-worn camera videos for training lapses, biased policing Mark Puente, Los Angeles Times Employers Are Still Avoiding Former Inmates Margaret Barthel, The Atlantic The Never-Ending Drug Hustle Behind Bars Dan Rosen, The Marshall Project ‘Cop Spit’ Is the Disgusting New Trend In Jails Seth Ferranti, Vice Major Sacramento County jail project...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: the Washington Post reports that on Tuesday, voters in Northern Virginia turned out to elect an “unprecedented” swath of reformer prosecutors. Four candidates running on explicitly progressive, anti-mass incarceration platforms won races for commonwealth’s attorney offices in Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, and Prince William counties – among the most populous in the state. Their wins have been called a “sea change” for Northern Virginia and beyond, as the elections will likely push the Virginia state prosecutor’s association to the left on issues ranging from the death penalty to cash bail to cooperation...