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 Washington Post highlights political battles across the country over vaccinating inmates against COVID-19. In crafting states’ coronavirus vaccination plans, public health officials have repeatedly emphasized the importance of neutralizing prisons and jails, which disproportionately hold people of color and have reported some of the most virulent outbreaks. In several states, including Washington and New Jersey, vaccinations in prisons and jails have already begun. But elsewhere, like in Colorado – where, last month, Gov. Jared Polis publicly backtracked...

PM Stories These Are the Rioters Who Stormed the Nation’s Capitol Sabrina Tavernise and Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times Prosecutors ‘looking at all actors,’ including Trump, as charges are filed against Capitol rioters Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz, Kara Scannell, and Christina Carrega, CNN Trump’s Role in Capitol Riot May Figure in Criminal Probe David Yaffe-Belany and Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Here’s How the Capitol Mob Violated Federal Criminal Law Bryce Klehm, Alan Z. Rozenshtein, and Jacob Schulz, Lawfare Where were the police? Lawmakers vow investigation into preparedness, response after breach of Capitol. Matthew Daly, Chicago Tribune The Impunity of White Insurrection Kellie Carter Jackson,...

PM Stories Mob Rule in the Capitol Evan Osnos, The New Yorker This Isn’t an Insurrection. It’s an Alliance. Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol – but few have been arrested so far Nicole Narea, Vox Capitol Breach Draws Sharp Condemnation of Law Enforcement Shaila Dewan, Neil MacFarquhar, and John Eligon, New York Times ‘Piss-Poor Planning’: How Police Bungled the Capitol Riot Justin Rohrlich and Michael Daly, Daily Beast Kid glove treatment of pro-Trump mob contrasts with strong-arm police tactics against Black Lives Matter, activists say Robert Klemko, Kimberly Kindy, Kim Bellware, and Derek Hawkins, Washington Post Photos show difference...

PM Stories ‘A lifetime of torture’: the story of the woman Trump is rushing to execute Ed Pilkington, The Guardian Saving Lisa Montgomery’s Life Requires More Than Stopping Her Execution Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic Only Woman On Federal Death Row Asks Trump To Spare Her Life Melissa Jeltsen, HuffPost US judge weighs delaying executions of two inmates with COVID-19 Jonathan Allen, Reuters There will be blood: Coronavirus, conflict and capital punishment Liane Jackson, ABA Journal After Surviving Botched Execution, Romell Broom Dies of COVID-19 Equal Justice Initiative ‘Being A Prisoner During COVID Is A Death Sentence’ Lise Olsen, Texas Observer A Texas man was sent to...

PM Stories How the Pandemic Exposed the Failures of Capital Punishment Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith, The Intercept Appeals court vacates order delaying woman’s execution Michael Balsamo, AP News ‘There’s nothing to prepare you’: what it’s like to witness an execution Claire Cameron, The Guardian ‘I Don’t Want to Grow Old Here’: The Endless Sentence of Ohio’s Death Row Maria DiLorenzo, The Crime Report COVID-19 cases surge at federal death row prison in Indiana Jim Monk, KVRR COVID-19: Coming to a Jail Near You Brian Dolinar, The Progressive For some Minnesota prisoners, vaccine a turning point in grueling fight with COVID-19 Liz Sawyer, Minneapolis Star Tribune COVID-19...

PM Stories Early vaccination in prisons, a public health priority, proves politically charged Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post As COVID-19 Surges in Jails, Guards Want Vaccine Early Kris Maher, Wall Street Journal States Are Shutting Down Prisons as Guards are Crippled By COVID-19 Brendon Derr, Rebecca Griesbach, and Danya Issawi, New York Times ‘They played with our lives’: How one Wisconsin prison failed to contain a COVID-19 outbreak Emily Hamer, Wisconsin State Journal Pandemic underscores need to release more elderly prisoners Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun Justice Department Finds Rampant Sexual Assaults and Constitutional Violations in Country’s Largest Women’s Prison CJ Ciaramella, Reason Officials knew about sexual abuse...