Crime Story Daily

PM Stories The Tortured Life And Tragic Crime Of The Only Woman On Death Row Melissa Jeltsen, HuffPost Trump Urged by Over 1,000 Advocates to Stop Execution of Federal Death Row Inmate Lisa Montgomery Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek Trump’s record-breaking spree of federal executions could come to an end under Biden Kim Bellware, Washington Post America’s Brutally Packed Prisons Are Slowly Emptying Justin Ling, Foreign Policy America’s war on drugs has failed. Oregon is showing a way out. German Lopez, Vox Since you asked: What role does drug enforcement play in the rising incarceration of women? Tiana Herring, Prison Policy Initiative Incarcerated Texans are dying from COVID-19...

PM Stories After Years of Protests Every Wednesday, LA Activists Welcome a New DA Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker How George Gascón unseated LA County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey Priya Krishnakumar and Iris Lee, Los Angeles Times Private Prison Stocks Drop as the Reality of Biden’s Win Sinks In Madison Pauly, Mother Jones “The Chaos May End”: How DHS Employees Are Reacting To Biden’s Win Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News Republicans and Democrats Agree: End the War on Drugs Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Florida’s new bloc of felon voters didn’t decide the election. Some say that’s good. Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald How Utah’s criminal justice reform...

PM Stories Joe Biden, Black voters made you president. It’s time to right wrongs on criminal justice. Ashish Prashar, USA Today Can Biden-Harris Fulfill an Ambitious Justice Reform Agenda? The Crime Report A New Class Of Prosecutors: Reformers Win Races Nationwide Cara Bayles, Law360 George Gascón will be LA County’s next district attorney, promises swift changes James Queally, Los Angeles Times What Kim Foxx’s Releection Says About Racial Politics, Fear And Justice In Chicago And Beyond Patrick Smith, WBEZ Tarra Simmons Becomes First Person Formerly Convicted Of A Felony Elected To Washington State Legislature Eoin Higgins, The Appeal California’s far-left activists shocked they beat Prop. 25....

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: There were many criminal justice-related issues on the ballot this year, from sheriff and prosecutor races to state and local initiatives on police oversight, drug policy, and over-incarceration. Pieces from Time and the Brennan Center survey the results of a mostly-promising Election Day for criminal justice reform. The Nation reports from California, where the reform movement won major ground on Tuesday as voters turned out to support a series of ambitious criminal justice-related changes, approving a statewide ballot measure to re-enfranchise...

PM Stories How Criminal Justice and Police Reform Fared in the Election Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Andrew Cohen, Brennan Center for Justice From Easing Drug Laws to Increasing Police Oversight, Criminal Justice Reform Won Big in the 2020 Election Melissa Chan, Time George Floyd protests pave the way for police reforms at the ballot box Daphne Duret and Jessica Priest, USA Today The national landscape on drug policy takes a dramatic turn Steve Benen, MSNBC Yesterday’s Clean Sweep for Drug Policy Reform Suggests That Prohibition May Collapse Sooner Than Expected Jacob Sullum, Reason SC voters usher in new wave of sheriffs after scandals. Advocates eye reforms....

PM Stories California goes big on criminal justice reform, setting a new, uncertain path Kevin Rector, Anita Chabria, James Queally, and Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times George Gascón barely survived his primary. Now, he’s likely to be LA County’s district attorney. James Queally, Los Angeles Times Progressive State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Fends Off Law-And-Order Candidate Pat O’Brien Patrick Smith, WBEZ Prop. 25, which would have abolished California’s cash bail system, is rejected by voters Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times The Real Winner Of The Election? Drugs. Tanya Chen, BuzzFeed News Oregon’s Decriminalization Vote Might Be Biggest Step Yet to Ending War on Drugs Natasha Lennard,...