Crime Story Daily

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: A piece from the Atlantic centers on Larry Krasner and the race for Philadelphia DA. In 2017, Democrats in Philadelphia gave the national movement for criminal-justice reform “one of its biggest victories” by electing Krasner, a longtime civil-rights attorney who campaigned on policies that would reduce mass incarceration. He quickly moved to deliver on his promises, firing more than 30 veteran prosecutors, scrapping bail for a host of minor crimes, and all but ending the prosecution of juveniles as adults. By...

PM Stories They Are Terminally Ill. States Want To Execute Them Anyway. Maurice Chammah and Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project SC Death Row Prisoners Will Soon Have to Choose Between Firing Squad or Electrocution Peter Wade, Rolling Stone 4 Years After an Execution, a Different Man’s DNA Is Found on the Murder Weapon Heather Murphy, New York Times Granted Parole or Awaiting Trial, Inmates Died of COVID-19 Behind Bars Rebecca Griesbach and Libby Seline, New York Times COVID-19 concerns sent thousands of inmates home. Give clemency to those who deserve it. Alice Marie Johnson and Ja’Ron Smith, USA Today Biden administration needs to walk the...

PM Stories Biden Administration Set to Tackle Clemency Backlog Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report As virus cases fall, Maryland tries to dig out of backlogged jury trials Dan Morse, Washington Post Order On The Dance Floor: Mass. Courts Bring Jury Trials To Ballrooms Due To COVID Deborah Becker, WBUR How Should COVID Affect A Prisoner’s Release Or Sentence? In Mass., Courts To Weigh In Joe Mathieu and Daniel Medwed, WGBH Federal prisoners on home confinement due to COVID-19 may be sent back behind bars NBC News ‘People Evolve’: Why DA Gascón Reversed Decades of Parole Policy To Support Release In Most Cases Frank Stoltze, LAist National...

PM Stories Biden Falls Short On Criminal Justice Reform In First 100 Days Sarah Martinson, Law360 Biden Hedges on His Promise To Free Pot Prisoners Jacob Sullum, Reason Biden administration needs to walk the walk on second chances for prisoners Erica Zunkel and James Ziegler, USA Today The Case For Moving Beyond Probation, And How To Do It Fiona Doherty, The Appeal Examining the Math and Ethics of COVID-19 in Prisons Dashiell Young-Saver, New York Times Inmates sent home during COVID-19 got jobs, started school. Now, they face possible return to prison Kristine Phillips, USA Today A Year of Disaster at Old Colony: Suicide Attempts, Self-Harm,...

PM Stories COVID Was Supposed to Cut Jail Time. Not for Those Awaiting Trial. Camille Squires, Bloomberg CityLab Many So-Called “Alternatives” to Mass Incarceration Are 21st-Century Shackles Vincent Schiraldi, James Kilgore, and Victoria Law, Truthout New York Parole System Called ‘Reincarceration Machine’ The Crime Report Minnesota’s criminal justice fees often fall hardest on poor Jessie Van Berkel, Minneapolis Star Tribune Youth Justice System Punishes Poverty: Study Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report Invisible Kid Maddy Crowell, Atavist Magazine North Carolina courts sentence some juveniles to life behind bars. Should that change? Some legislators think so. Hannah Critchfield, North Carolina Health News What a Colorado bill to change policing...

PM Stories We Still Don’t Know Who the Coronavirus’s Victims Were Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic The Biden Administration Should Not Send Thousands of People Back to Prison Nikki Trautman Baszynski, The Appeal Biden administration needs to walk the walk on second chances for prisoners Erica Zunkel and James Zeigler, USA Today My Child Is Incarcerated. One Second in This Unjust System Is Too Much. Esther Hernández, Truthout 76,000 California inmates now eligible for earlier releases Don Thompson, ABC News How Pittsburgh Activists Are Seizing a Rare Chance To Reshape Courts Sam Mellins, The Appeal Why Larry Krasner’s Defeat Would be ‘Disastrous’ for Criminal-Justice Reform Russell...