Crime Story Daily

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: On Tuesday, a Hennepin County, Minnesota jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd last May. In an interview with editor David Remnick, New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb discusses the trial’s outcome, the significance of the verdict against Derek Chauvin, and the work still to be done. A piece from the Washington Post takes a deeper dive into the Chauvin trial, outlining...

PM Stories How We Survived COVID-19 in Prison Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project NY Quietly Stopped Vaccinating People In State Prisons – But Promised To Resume After Questioning Caroline Lewis and Gwynne Hogan, WNYC NJ lawmakers urge more prisoner vaccinations at facility devastated by COVID Joe Atmonavage, NJ Advance Media Colorado’s courts grapple with COVID-19 trial backlog that could take years to clear Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post Jury Duty Is Back, and It Looks Very Different Benjamin Weiser, New York Times Supreme Court Rules For Worshippers And Against California COVID Restrictions Nina Totenberg, NPR Supreme Court Rejects Limits on Life Terms for Youths Adam Liptak, New...

PM Stories This Is Not Justice. It’s Self-Preservation. Zak Cheney-Rice, New York Magazine The Sorrow and Relief in Minneapolis Emily Witt, New Yorker The Derek Chauvin Verdict Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Those Who Found No Justice Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Time As Chauvin Verdict Was Read, Police Killed Black Ohio Teen Ma’Khia Bryant Chris Walker, Truthout Fatal police shooting of Black teenager in Columbus sparks new outcry Randy Ludlow, Derek Hawkins, Paulina Firozi, and Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post There Will Be More Derek Chauvins Adam Serwer, The Atlantic Derek Chauvin’s conviction shouldn’t obscure how broken our criminal justice system is Jerusalem Demsas, Vox Chauvin Trial...

PM Stories The Significance of the Derek Chauvin Verdict David Remnick and Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis, is led away in handcuffs Chao Xiong and Paul Walsh, Minneapolis Star Tribune How Derek Chauvin became the rare police officer convicted of murder Mark Berman, Washington Post Derek Chauvin Verdict Brings a Rare Rebuke of Police Conduct John Eligon, Tim Arango, Shaila Dewan, and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times Chauvin’s Conviction Is the Exception That Proves the Rule David A. Graham, The Atlantic Derek Chauvin Was Not an Aberration Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic ‘Still much work to be...

PM Stories State cannabis reform is putting social justice front and center Sabina Morris, John Hudak, and Christine Stenglein, Brookings New Mexico Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, Erases Some Drug-Related Criminal Records Gina Heeb, Forbes Young Black Women Are Calling For The Decriminalization Of Cannabis – Here’s Why Jessica Morgan, Refinery29 Time for the Next Step in Federal Justice Reform: Rethinking Drug Laws Brendan Belair, The Crime Report Congress Is Closer Than Ever to Ending the Federal War on Weed CJ Ciaramella, Reason The Return of Reefer Madness in the GOP Billy Binion, Reason Philadelphia DA Race Could Ramp Up the War on Drugs Maura Ewing, The Appeal Big...

PM Stories Federal Prisons Flunked the Pandemic, Senators Say Kaila Philo, Courthouse News Prisons postpone vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson shots paused Erin Schumaker, ABC News How Many Coronavirus Cases in Ky. Jails? We Don’t Know, And State Won’t Say Jared Bennett, Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting An ‘insane’ COVID lockdown two miles from the Capitol, with no end in sight Peter Jamison, Washington Post ‘He Left His Legacy’: Losing a Brother to COVID in San Quentin Hank Warner, KQED He’s 84 and battled COVID. Should NJ inmate convicted in trooper’s killing get out of prison? Dustin Racioppi, NorthJersey.com Two men seek exoneration in unusual case...