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PM Stories 1 federal prison, 8 deaths: Report details COVID-19’s early march through the system Kevin Johnson, USA Today Federal prison didn’t isolate inmates who tested positive for coronavirus, report finds Clare Hymes, CBS News Justice Department Finds Constitutional Violations in Massachusetts Prisons Wall Street Journal Force Use Against Inmates Reached Record as COVID Hit New York City Reuven Blau and Eileen Grench, The City ‘We know that they see us’: Why a 58-day vigil is going on outside NC governor’s house Sophie Kasakove, Greensboro News & Record Report on death of Black inmate who pleaded for help rips corrections, health care provider Alan J....

PM Stories The promise – and peril – of Biden’s criminal justice reform platform Wanda Bertram, Prison Policy Initiative Think Private Prison Companies Are Going Away Under Biden? They Have Other Plans Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project Los Angeles County District Attorney-Elect Promises Progressive Criminal Justice Reform Tonya Mosley and Samantha Raphelson, WBUR Editorial: Time for LA County to go its own way on bail Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Monique Worrell’s win in Orlando part of national wave of progressive prosecutors Monivette Cordeiro, Orlando Sentinel Drug decriminalization advocate praises new Oregon law as ‘huge knock’ on drug war The Hill Judge orders revamp of Missouri’s...

PM Stories Fewer Americans Call for Tougher Criminal Justice System Megan Brenan, Gallup After California restores felon voting rights, activists see growing national trend Natalia Abrahams, NBC News The Widening Rural-Urban Divide in Criminal Justice Marc Levin, The Crime Report The COVID-19 Outbreak In Mass. Prisons Exposes A Larger Human Rights Crisis Sarah Laughlin, WBUR Lori Loughlin’s Dublin prison faces ‘dangerous’ COVID-19 outbreak Martha Ross, San Jose Mercury News At Least 231 People Have Died In Texas Jails And Prisons From COVID-19, Study Finds Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR Incarcerated Texans enlisted to work in county morgue as COVID-19 deaths overwhelm El Paso Alana Rocha, Texas Tribune Harris County...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: A piece from The Marshall Project examines the future of criminal justice under President Joe Biden. Biden ran on the most progressive criminal justice platform of any major party candidate in generations, promising to end private prisons, cash bail, mandatory-minimum sentencing, and the death penalty. The piece outlines possible paths forward for the Biden administration on a range of criminal justice issues, from police and bail reform to immigration detention. Pieces from the New York Times and Bloomberg CityLab explore the...

PM Stories COVID-19 still rages in America’s prisons. Here’s how states can save lives behind bars. Jo-Ann Wallace and Tom Inglesby, USA Today Pandemic’s Deadly Toll Behind Bars Spurs Calls For Change In US Jails And Prisons Eric Westervelt, NPR 80 percent of those who died of COVID-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime Jerusalem Demsas, Vox Serious COVID-19 outbreak threatens hundreds at Pa. prison for medically vulnerable Joseph Darius Jaafari, Spotlight PA El Paso County jail inmates weren’t given masks prior to one of Colorado’s largest COVID-19 outbreaks Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post California must reduce jail and prison populations to...

PM Stories A Plea from Federal Death Row: ‘We Need You to Raise Your Voices’ Billie Allen, The Nation Trump Admin Set to Execute 10 Federal Inmates in 2020 – More Than Any President in a Single Year Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek Editorial: DA-elect George Gascón’s ban on new death sentences is a welcome change Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Prisons and jails have become a ‘public health threat’ during the pandemic, advocates say Cid Standifer and Frances Stead Sellers, Washington Post Federal Prisons Keep Turning Into COVID Nightmares: ‘Everyone Looks Like Death’ Keegan Hamilton, Vice Pennsylvania prisons face a deadly ‘full-blown resurgence’ of COVID-19 Samantha...