Crime Story Daily

PM Stories Prisons and jails comprise the largest COVID clusters in the United States Ericka Conant, Al Día We learned many hard lessons from the tragic COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin prison Haiyan Ramirez Batlle and John Grant, Sacramento Bee Congress must do more to protect people in prisons and jails and those re-entering the community Daniel Brown and Nkechi Taifa, Des Moines Register Judge orders body cameras on guards at state prison, citing evidence of officers abusing inmates (California) Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times COVID-19 Intensifies Reentry For Better or Worse: Report Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report Ohio’s prison population at its lowest since...

PM Stories Mass Shootings Are Soaring, With Black Neighborhoods Hit Hardest Champe Barton, J. Brian Charles, Jennifer Mascia, and Chip Brownlee, The Trace Gun violence in America: The story of one day and 113 people shot Bonnie Berkowitz and Christine Loman, Washington Post Gun laws were meant to ban private militants. Now, our hands are tied. Darrell A. H. Miller, Washington Post Waiting To Be Thrown Out Gaby Del Valle, The Verge Act now or coronavirus will sentence more prisoners to death, say experts Jessica Glenza, The Guardian The FIRST STEP Act Has Reduced Prison Terms for More Than 7,000 People Jacob Sullum, Reason The pandemic...

PM Stories Jacob Blake, Rare Survivor at Center of Police Protests, Starts Telling His Own Story Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times Jacob Blake Speaks Out for First Time Since Kenosha Police Shooting: “It Hurts to Breathe” Daniel Politi, Slate The American Horror of Hooding Tasha Williams and Alison Kinney, New Republic Gov. Greg Abbott considering legislation to put Austin police under state control after budget cut Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune Bust the Police Unions Peter Suderman, Reason 32 Black federal prosecutors in Washington have a plan to make the criminal justice system more fair Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post Report: Harris County’s bail reforms let more...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: A piece from The New Yorker focuses on Florida, where, with two months to go before Election Day, Republican lawmakers are doing everything they can to prevent as many as eight hundred thousand former felons living in the state from casting a ballot. And the Los Angeles Times reports from California, where a proposal to decertify police officers convicted of serious misconduct was shot down in the state Senate Monday night. The piece outlines how – between partisan conflict, infighting among...

PM Stories COVID-19, Jails, and Public Safety Anna Harvey and Orion Taylor, Council on Criminal Justice Covid-19 has killed more police officers this year than all other causes combined, data shows Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post From Goldwater to Trump, the long history of ‘Law and Order’ politics Peter Grier and Noah Robertson, Christian Science Monitor As Trump Calls for Law and Order, Can Chicago’s Top Prosecutor Beat the Charge That She’s Soft on Crime? Mick Dumke, ProPublica Amid Coronavirus, Trump Moved to Expel Immigrants – But Border Patrol Didn’t Test Any of Them Malaika Tapper, The Intercept New York Promised to Help Mentally Ill People...

PM Stories The Violent Contradiction of California’s Reliance on Incarcerated Firefighters Ray Levy Uyeda, New Republic California’s Inmate Firefighters May Soon Be Allowed To Continue Their Careers After Release Scott Shackford, Reason Returning from prison and jail is hard during normal times – it’s even more difficult during COVID-19 Wanda Bertram, Prison Policy Initiative COVID-19 Death Rate in Prison Twice That of General Population: Study Nancy Bilyeau, The Crime Report Advocates, inmates memorialize ‘overlooked’ lives lost to coronavirus behind bars Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post California’s federal prisons to lift COVID-19 visitor restriction – and workers are worried Kate Irby, Sacramento Bee ICE Is Using COVID-19...