Crime Story Daily

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily from the past week.

PM Stories Immigrant detentions soar despite Biden’s campaign promises Philip Marcelo and Gerald Herbert, AP News Immigrant Activists Say ICE Is Purposely Targeting Them. They’re Urging Biden To Help Joel Rose, NPR US civil rights groups propose path to keep inmates home after pandemic emergency Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters Some Older Prisoners Aren’t Eligible For Compassionate Release. Lawmakers Want Change Carrie Johnson, NPR If Missouri Fails To Contain COVID-19 Outbreaks In Prisons, Outside Communities Will Be At Risk Jamie Jiang, KCUR COVID Froze Prison Visits, Spotlighting High Cost of Phone Calls Lindsey Van Ness, PEW Stateline Pandemic pushed defendants to plead guilty more often, including innocent...

PM Stories Is This Finally It For Andrew Cuomo? Eric Lach, The New Yorker Could Cuomo Face Jail Time Following Attorney General’s Harassment Report? Greg B. Smith, The City How Cuomo Got Away With It for So Long Elizabeth Spiers, New York Times ‘A Poison in the System’: The Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times The Unlikely Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor and the Instagram Account That Saved Her Life John H. Tucker, Elle Why more women are dying in jails PBS Vaccination rates in Colorado prisons remain low as COVID-19 cases spike across the state Moe Clark, Colorado Newsline COVID...

PM Stories Race, Disability and Criminal Justice Emily Riley, The Crime Report A Story of Two Deaths at the Collin County Jail Dalton LaFerney, D Magazine State lawmakers say city’s solitary confinement overhaul falls short Erin Durkin, Politico Massachusetts Prison System Sued Over Unreliable Drug Tests That Put Inmates in Solitary CJ Ciaramella, Reason The Biden Administration Is Rejecting “The War On Drugs” And Turning To “Harm Reduction” Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed News Treatment for Opioid Addiction, With No Strings Attached (2019) Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project Doctor Fentanyl Brett Popplewell, Toronto Life Update: The Case for a New Trial The Intercept Michigan prisoner seeks release from solitary confinement...

PM Stories Is Biden ending the death penalty? Frank R. Baumgartner, Washington Post Biden vowed to end the death penalty. Can he keep his promise? Crystal Hill, Yahoo! News Reversing a Midnight Expansion of the Death Penalty Megan Russo, Regulatory Review A wave of new criminal justice laws were enacted in Colorado. Here are the big takeaways. Moe Clark, Colorado Newsline Youth Recidivism Halved by San Francisco Program Blake Diaz, The Crime Report Four Steps We Can Take To End Mass Incarceration Nicholas Turner, Forbes LA district attorney’s past drives his push forward for reform Matt Reynolds, ABA Journal Everyone in San Francisco Has Something to Say...

PM Stories The Volunteer (2018) Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project Nevada’s Plan to Bring Back Executions With an Untested Drug Cocktail Austin Sarat, Slate A Pause in Federal Executions, but Uncertainty About What’s Next Hailey Fuchs, New York Times Inmates grapple with uncertainty over Biden prison plan Harper Neidig, The Hill Visitation at Mississippi state prisons suspended as number of new COVID-19 cases grows Gabriela Szymanowska, Mississippi Clarion Ledger COVID-19 is being used as a reason to keep people jailed without a trial. This has to stop Garrett Miller, Los Angeles Times Four Ways The Pandemic Made Us Rethink Our Criminal Legal System Insha Rahman, Forbes “Progressive...