Crime Story Daily

New sheriff in town Nicholas Chrastil, The Lens

Sheriff of the Year: Susan Hutson (+ the people who elected her) Jessica Pishko, Substack

Keechant Sewell to Become First Woman to Lead NYPD Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Ali Watkins, and Ashley Southall, New York Times

The Border State César Cuauhtémoc Garcia Hernández, Inquest

Biden Relaunches Trump’s Controversial Immigration Policy Jasmine Aguilera, Time Magazine

Helicopters and High-Speed Chases: Inside Texas’ Push to Arrest Migrants J. David Goodman, New York Times

Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Ban to Remain in Effect Jordan Smith, The Intercept

What Would a Post-Roe America Look Like? Spencer Bokat-Lindell, New York Times

The Judiciary Still Hasn’t Reckoned With Its #MeToo Problem Elie Mystal, The Nation

“Left in the Dark”: Covid Behind Bars The Drift Magazine

Fragile Evidence Gabriel Daniel Solis, Texas Observer

Phantom justice and the death penalty James S. Liebman, The Hill

It Took 74 Days for Ahmaud Arbery's Murderers to Be Arrested. A Top ACLU Lawyer Is Decrying a 'Cover Up' by Local Prosecutors Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone

They Publicized Prosecutors’ Misconduct. The Blowback Was Swift. Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times

Looking at role of prosecutors, politics in mass incarceration Nikki Rojas, Harvard Gazette

Can you ever escape the American prison system? Jaeah Lee, The Economist

The death penalty cases before the Supreme Court that could keep innocent people in prison Leah Litman, NBC News

He Is Black. The Victims Were White. ‘It’s an Allegation as Old as America.’ Margaret Renkl, New York Times