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PM Stories Lost Opportunity, Lost Lives Lisa Armstrong, The Marshall Project COVID spike prompts Louisiana prison system to cancel visits and keep volunteers out Elyse Carmosino, The Advocate A Filthy New Orleans Jail Made My Son Sick. The ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Medical Treatment at Angola Prison Killed Him. Lois Ratcliff and Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project St. Louis Jails Stocked Up on Pepper Spray as Detainees Complained of Abuse Doyle Murphy, Riverfront Times A Texas GOP Bill Would Make It Harder For Nonprofits To Bail People Out Of Jail Jen Rice, Houston Public Media Is Biden overlooking Bureau of Prisons as reform target? Colleen Long...

PM Stories The Lines of Connection Clint Smith, The Atlantic Telecom Vendors Used End of Prison Visits During COVID to Profit Off Phone Calls Bianca Tylek, Truthout Virus cases are surging at crowded immigration detention centers in the US Maura Turcotte, New York Times Whistleblowers say they were told to downplay COVID outbreak among migrant kids at shelter Julia Ainsley, NBC News Migrant Protest at White House Calls for End to ICE Detention Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue Judge offers an alternative to community service sentences: covid-19 vaccination Max Hauptman, Washington Post Inside Democrats’ quest to nominate judges who break the ex-prosecutor mold Tierney Sneed, CNN Biden Pick...

PM Stories Incarceration after COVID: how the pandemic could permanently change jails and prisons Racine County Eye Louisiana prisons suspend visitation again as COVID-19 cases soar in the state Tori B. Powell, CBS News Bergen County Jail rife with abuse and discrimination, complaint says Liam Quinn, NorthJersey.com Psychiatry Professor Explores Intersection of Mental Illness and Mass Incarceration Detroit Today A ‘Warm’ Closure Tomas Keen, Inquest Monetary Sanctions as a Pound of Flesh Alexes Harris, Brennan Center for Justice Nine ways that states can provide better public defense Ginger Jackson-Gleich and Wanda Bertram, Prison Policy Initiative New State Funding Boosts Prosecutor-Led Resentencing Efforts in California Matthew Green, KQED Activists...

PM Stories Violence Against Women: The ‘Shadow Pandemic’ Gareth Bryon, The Crime Report California Relies on Incarcerated Women to Put Out Wildfires Mary Harris, Slate For women in Illinois prisons, life isn’t reality TV, it’s just real Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune What Incarceration Does to a Marriage Elizabeth Greenwood, The Atlantic New data: People with incarcerated loved ones have shorter life expectancies and poorer health Emily Widra, Prison Policy Initiative How the Federal Government Can Incentivize States To Reverse mass Incarceration Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Hernandez Stroud, Brennan Center for Justice A Seat at the Table Joel Castón, Inquest 8 US attorney picks by Biden would include historic...

PM Stories ‘Law and Order’ has Worked for the GOP Before. This Crime Boom Might be Different. Joshua Zeitz, Politico New ‘Crime Wave’? Not for Most Americans Eva Herscowitz, The Crime Report 316 people are shot every day in America. Here are 5 stories Rebecca Santana, Claudia Lauer, Susan Montoya Bryan, Casey Smith, Tom Foreman Jr. and Hilary Powell, AP News After shootings, DC residents ask what city will do. ‘What’s in place isn’t working’ Michael Brice-Saddler, Julie Zauzmer, and Paul Schwartzmann, Washington Post Biden administration takes aim at ‘straw’ purchasers of guns used in crimes Devlin Barrett, Washington Post New federal strike force aims...