Crime Story Daily

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: NPR reports from Washington, where, earlier this week, Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law more than a dozen bills aimed at improving policing in the state, reducing the use of deadly force and increasing transparency and accountability. The focus of the bills runs the gamut from tactics officers can use in the field, to how deadly force incidents are investigated, to the circumstances under which officers can be decertified. In a statement Tuesday, the Washington Black Lives Matter Alliance praised the...

PM Stories Over 65% of Federal Prisoners are Black or Hispanic: USSC The Crime Report Life-without-parole sentences are exploding. But America’s legal defense system hasn’t kept pace. Cary Aspinwall, Dallas Morning News As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder The Crime Report In Kansas And Beyond, Poor Defendants Are Hurt By Lack Of Public Defenders Nomin Ujiyediin, KCUR FCC to Cut Some Prison Call Costs, But Most Are Beyond Its Reach Jon Reid, Bloomberg Law Congress Wants To Set Up One-Stop Shops To Help Ex-Inmates Stay Out Of Prison Claudia Grisales, NPR How Data-Based Policies Can Help the Formerly Incarcerated Get a...

PM Stories Prisoners and the Pandemic Tana Ganeva, Rolling Stone Just over half of incarcerated people are vaccinated, despite being locked in COVID-19 epicenters Tiana Herring and Emily Widra, Prison Policy Initiative Three Inmates Killed in Less Than a Week in Alabama Prisons Allyson Waller, New York Times New Body Camera Mandate in NJ Prisons ‘Long Overdue’ Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report LA County launches jail ‘dashboard’ to better understand who is behind bars City News Service Anti-Jail Movement Takes Shape In Conservative North Carolina Amanda Abrams, Shadowproof Victory in Philadelphia Buoys Supporters of Progressive District Attorney Jon Hurdle and Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times Lawmakers,...

PM Stories The American ‘Punisher’s Brain’ Andrew Cohen, Brennan Center for Justice Supreme Court Limits Impact of New Criminal Procedures Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal High Court Decision Called ‘Alarming Reversal’ in Youth Justice Blake Diaz, The Crime Report Philadelphia’s Next District Attorney Must Continue to Reject the Failed War on Drugs Nikki Trautman Baszynski, The Appeal Philadelphia’s Progressive District Attorney Fends Off Democratic Challenger Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times Who Will Replace Cy Vance As Manhattan District Attorney? James D. Walsh, New York Magazine Meet the Woman Who Would Transform the Nation’s Most Powerful DA’s Office Moustafa Bayoumi, The Nation Biden moving to improve legal...

PM Stories Will Philadelphia Voters Stick with Justice Reform? Anna Wilder, The Crime Report Larry Krasner – and the Future of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement – Is on Tuesday’s Ballot John Nichols, The Nation The New Preemption of Progressive Prosecutors Nicholas Goldrosen, University of Illinois Law Review Progressive Prosecutors ‘Undercut’ by State Legislators: Paper The Crime Report SCOTUS Takes Alarming Step Backwards for Criminal Justice Reform Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz, Bloomberg Law Ban on Non-Unanimous Verdicts Is Not Retroactive, Supreme Court Rules Adam Liptak, New York Times Despite a prison system ‘in crisis,’ Florida again fails to pass major criminal justice reforms Editorial Board,...

PM Stories With Violence Rising, Can a Gentler Prosecutor Keep His Seat? Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times The California Prosecutors Who Want to Keep People Out of Jail Sasha Abramsky, The Nation Inside George Gascón’s justice revolution, a debate over what it is to be a crime victim James Queally and Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times Resentencing Laws To Cut Terms Gain Momentum Across US Sarah Martinson, Law360 A change in California’s corrections system could mean earlier release or parole hearings for some inmates Melissa Alonso, CNN As prisons close, communities look to repurpose buildings Pat Eaton-Robb, Washington Post Lawmakers and advocates seek to keep...