PM Stories
How US Prisons Became Ground Zero for Covid-19 Taylor Miller Thomas, Politico
COVID-19 Pulls Back the Mask on America’s Prison System CJ Ciaramella, Reason
The View From Inside San Quentin State Prison Adamu Chan, Slate
Top medical officer for California prisons ousted amid worsening coronavirus outbreak Richard Winton and Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times
Inmates Hunger Strike In Protest Of Coronavirus Measures (California) City News Service
Many Deaths at New York State Prisons Are Preventable, Review Finds Reuven Blau and Carson Kessler, The City
He was supposed to be in prison less than a year. Instead, he died after catching the coronavirus. Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune
New commission in three major cities targets past misconduct within criminal justice systems Taylor Romine and Lauren del Valle, CNN
The False Choice Between ‘Progressive’ and ‘Old-Fashioned’ Prosecutors Marc A. Levin, The Crime Report
Long imprisoned, man wins early release amid pandemic, but efforts to clear his name continue Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune
“I Hope Our Daughters Will Not Be Punished” Justine van der Leun, Dissent Magazine
Uncivil Commitment Judith Levine and Erica Meiners, n+1 Magazine
True Crime and the Trash Balance (2019) Soraya Roberts, Longreads
AM Stories
Have Americans Warmed to Calls to ‘Defund the Police’? Giovanni Russonello, New York Times
A Knee on All Americans Tim Lynch, Jurist
Policing Doesn’t Protect Women Isabel Cristo, New Republic
Do police union contracts inhibit reform? Stephanie Francis Ward, ABA Journal
Yes, the last large-scale review of our criminal justice system was in 1965 Taylor Goldenstein, Houston Chronicle
Amid moment of reckoning, some police chiefs leave the job to someone else Milton J. Valencia, Boston Globe
LAPD responds to a million 911 calls a year, but relatively few for violent crimes Joel Rubin and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times
LA County’s new $0 bail rule permits police to crack down on protesters, legal advocates say Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times
Police Agencies in New York and Los Angeles Drag Their Feet over Body Camera Footage and Misconduct Records Scott Shackford, Reason
Memo: NYPD Oversight Investigators’ Job Has Become “Untenable” Because Of Body Cam Backlog Sydney Pereira, Gothamist
NYPD’s Culture of Impunity Sees an Officer Repeatedly Accused of Physical and Sexual Abuse Rising Through the Ranks Tana Ganeva, The Intercept
After he shot and killed an unarmed teen driver, a Kansas police officer was paid a $70,000 severance Tom Jackman, Washington Post