White House weighs controversial plan on mental illness and mass shootings William Wan, Washington Post
Does a Kansas Inmate Have a Right to Opioid Addiction Drugs? A Judge Will Decide Sandra Garcia, New York Times
“Get on the Ground!”: Policing, Poverty, and Racial Inequality in Tulsa, Oklahoma Human Rights Watch
Officers Said They Smelled Pot. The Judge Called Them Liars. Joseph Goldstein, New York Times
The brain, the criminal and the courts Eryn Brown, Knowable Magazine
Fired, then rehired (Pennsylvania) William Bender and David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Inquirer
Harris County DA Seeks Execution of Intellectually Disabled Man, Lawyer Says (Texas) Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal
“We failed as an agency”: Texas prison officials admit violating court order on air conditioned units for inmates Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune
The Democrats’ Shameful Legacy on Crime Marie Gottschalk, New Republic
This Oklahoma woman got 12 years for selling $31 worth of marijuana but was later paroled. Now she’s back in jail for failure to pay court fees Samantha Vicent, Tulsa World
Bill to Help Scrub Records of Low-Level Offenders Hits Newsom’s Desk (California) Maria Dinzeo, Courthouse News
National, state and local police union officials call for St. Louis circuit attorney’s resignation Joel Currier, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
We Are Witnesses: Chicago The Marshall Project
Inside the Disturbing Case of the ‘Jeff Davis 8’: Showtime Series Examines Unsolved Murders Chris Harris, People
Amanda Knox & Lorena Bobbitt Team Up For True Crime Festival, Fans React Whitney Vasquez, Yahoo