Crime Story Daily

Mass Incarceration and Remorse Steven Zeidman, Gotham Gazette How Facebook Bought a Police Force (California) Sarah Emerson, Vice The Kim Foxx Effect: How Prosecutions Have Changed in Cook County Matt Daniels, The Marshall Project ‘Old Boys Club’ of White, Male Prosecutors Facing Change Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report The Probation Trap: Living in Fear (Pennsylvania) Samantha Melamed and Dylan Purcell, Philadelphia Inquirer Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire Seth Freed Wessler, Mother Jones California’s tough-on-crime past haunts Kamala Harris Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Federal judge grants James Dailey temporary stay of execution (Florida) Dan Sullivan, Tampa Bay Times Broward County Sheriff Ousted Over Handling of Parkland Shooting (Florida) Arian Campo-Flores, Wall Street Journal Fired NYPD...

Hundreds of Cities Have Adopted a New Strategy for Reducing Crime in Housing. Is It Making Neighborhoods Safer – or Whiter? Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones In north Louisiana, sheriff and private prison operator trade prisoners for ICE detainees Bryn Stole, New Orleans Times-Picayune A Presidential Town Hall on Mass Incarceration – Who Will Show Up? Alice Speri, The Intercept Google Maps now shows speed traps, potentially raising the ire of law enforcement Marie Baca, Washington Post How a Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in NY History Corey Kilgannon, New York Times Texas Justice Reform: A ‘Sea Change’ Underway? The Crime Report A federal judge is challenging how Connecticut treats its former...

Beaten and Left in Solitary Confinement, He Thought He Would Die Jan Ransom, New York Times America’s next most important election? The LA district attorney race Los Angeles Times Editorial Board Criminal justice reform targets court fines, fees (California) Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune Will Timothy Trybus go to prison for viral rant? Most white men charged with hate crimes in Cook County do not Josh McGhee, Chicago Reporter 9-year-old boy – his feet barely touching ground from his chair – hears judge explain murder charges brought against him in central Illinois fire that killed 5 Peter Nickeas, Chicago Tribune The False Alarms That Get Kids Arrested Tyler Kingkade, The Atlantic When a police officer dies by suicide,...

Imagining a World Without Prisons Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic   A controversial Florida law stops some former felons from voting. A judge just blocked part of it. PR Lockhart, Vox Fort Worth Police Have More Violence to Answer For, Residents Say Manny Fernandez, Sarah Mervosh, and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times From Ferguson to Fort Worth, the road to police reforms is paved with tragedy Ray Sanchez, CNN Here’s How Easily New York Could Become the First Major US City to End Solitary Confinement Natasha Lennard, The Intercept The China Connection: How One DEA Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring Alex Palmer, New York Times The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools Tom Simonite...

NYC Votes to Close Rikers. Now Comes the Hard Part. Matthew Haag, New York Times Why a vote to close New York’s Rikers Island is being met with backlash PR Lockhart, Vox Deadly police shootings keep happening. Data could be a missing piece Gretchen Frazee, PBS Activists angry police who shoot can wait to face questions Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press Who’s the threat? Ike Swetlitz, Searchlight New Mexico When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested Lizzie Presser, Pro Publica Bresha Meadows Thought You’d Understand Melissa Jeltsen, Huffington Post Tennessee executed a suspected killer. Attorneys say the real culprit may be behind a vicious attack in Missouri. Antonia Noori Farzan, Washington Post For My Incarcerated Clients, There Is...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: the Guardian reports that last Friday, California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a statewide ban on private prisons. The ban, which also applies to companies that hold immigrant detainees for ICE, is likely to set off yet another legal battle between California and the Trump administration. And the New York Times writes that on Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard the case of Lee Malvo, one of two snipers who terrorized the Washington, DC region with a series of deadly attacks in the fall of 2002. Malvo, who was 17...