Crime Story Daily

PM Stories Incarceratedly Yours, COVID-19 Issue Prison Renaissance Zine Project San Quentin tells its own COVID story Jack Herrera, Columbia Journalism Review Care at NC jail was supposed to be ‘best in the nation.’ So why have inmates died? Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer Federal prisons resume visitation in October, 7 months after COVID-19 forced suspension Kevin Johnson, USA Today ‘Waiting and waiting:’ COVID only made Harris County’s massive backlog of murder cases worse Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle California could soon end its dumb policy on inmate firefighters. What took so long? Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times The Former Prisoners Fighting California’s Wildfires Christie Thompson, The...

PM Stories Who Gets to Vote in Florida? Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker More People With Felony Convictions Can Vote, but Roadblocks Remain Lindsey Van Ness, Stateline A Promising Violence Prevention Program in Chicago Faces a Massive Budget Setback Lakeidra Chavis, The Trace Mental Fatigue, Anxiety And Hopelessness, Welcome To Today’s American Federal Prison Experience Walter Pavlo, Forbes ‘They’re Trying to Kill Us’ Zoe Schiffer and Nicole Wetsman, The Verge Sentenced under now invalid drug laws and less than a year from freedom, inmate gets COVID-19 Kristine Phillips, USA Today How Prison Officials Block Access to the Media Karina Piser and Marcia Brown, American Prospect We Already...

PM Stories Trump’s failed promise of criminal justice reform gives Biden an opening Mark Osler, Washington Post Fact Check: Trump’s And Biden’s Records On Criminal Justice Brian Naylor, NPR In 2016, Trump Promised to Make America Safe Again. He Failed. Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine Trump claims crime is up in US cities. The truth is more complicated. German Lopez, Vox “Law and Order” Isn’t the Answer to Rising Crime in Philadelphia Maura Ewing, Slate Judges are trying to reduce a reform prosecutor’s powers. She’s right to fight back. Editorial Board, Washington Post The US Prison System Has Reached 1,000 COVID-19 Deaths Scott Shackford, Reason California prison...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: A piece from the New York Times asks, “Can prosecutors be taught to avoid jail sentences?” In the last few years, at least 60 district attorneys have come to see incarceration as “destructive, racist, expensive, and ineffective.” But as they work to reform the criminal justice system from the inside, progressive prosecutors are often met with resistance – starting with their own staffs. In a piece for Politico Magazine, five Black female prosecutors – including St. Louis, MO circuit attorney Kim...

PM Stories Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings Haley Willis, Muyi Xiao, Christiaan Triebert, Christoph Koettl, Stella Cooper, David Botti, John Ismay, and Ainara Tiefenthäler, New York Times An inescapable echo between Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the deaths of protesters in Kenosha Philip Bump, Washington Post Jacob Blake’s Dad: Cops Shot My Son, High-Fived Kyle Rittenhouse Jamie Ross, Daily Beast White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says Sam Levin, The Guardian Blue Bloods: America’s Brotherhood of Police Officers Eve L. Ewing, Vanity Fair Long History of US Racism in Policing Blocks Reforms, Panel Says Nancy Bilyeau, The Crime Report Many...

PM Stories Suspect Charged With Murder After 2 Shot Dead At Kenosha Protest Sara Boboltz and Andy Campbell, HuffPost Police in Kenosha shared water, said they ‘appreciate’ armed group before two killed Adam Rogan, Racine Journal Times Kenosha Police Chief Blames Protesters for Their Own Deaths, Defends Vigilante Groups Jeremy Stahl, Slate NBA players sit out in protest four years to the day after Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protest vs. Green Bay Shanna McCarriston, CBS Sports The Kenosha shooting didn’t happen in a vacuum Denise Lockwood, CNN Measurement Matters: The Key to Police Reform Ava J. Abramowitz and Catherine Milton, Lawfare ‘Prosecutors Are Not Exempt from Criticism’...