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Kim Gardner, Progressive St. Louis Prosecutor Targeted By Trump, Fends Off Dem Challenger Ryan J. Reilly, Huffington Post
Joe Arpaio, Jerry Sheridan in dead heat for Maricopa County primary race KTAR
A Historic Supreme Court Ruling Upends Courts in Oklahoma Jack Healy, New York Times
Oklahoma AG Seeks Guidance on Criminal Appeals After High Court Ruling David Lee, Courthouse News
Should NY Be Jailing Parolees for Minor Lapses During a Pandemic? Ginia Bellafante, New York Times
Probation and Parole ‘Feed Mass Incarceration’: Report Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report
Incarceration And Its Disseminations: COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons From Chicago’s Cook County Jail Eric Reinhart and Daniel L. Chen, Health Affairs
Virus rate in prisons seen as US’ worst John Moritz, Arkansas Online
2 More San Quentin Prisoners Die Of Suspected Virus Complications CBS
He had a ‘heart of gold’: Florida corrections officer is second to die of COVID-19 Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’s Liz Garbus on the Power of Point of View Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Magazine
AM Stories
Nine Elections This Week Could Upend Criminal Justice Nationwide Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal
Homicide Spike Hits Most Large US Cities Jon Hilsenrath, Wall Street Journal
The murder spike in big US cities, explained German Lopez, Vox
The Mayor Blames the Virus for Shootings. Here’s What Crime Data Shows. (New York) Alan Feuer, New York Times
Tear Gas Bans: A Policing Change Not Gaining Traction Lindsay Van Ness, PEW
Distrust of the Minneapolis Police, and Also the Effort to Defund Them John Eligon, New York Times
George Floyd protests: Black police officers see fight for racial justice through personal lens Alene Tchekmedyian and Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times
Ferguson Prepared America For This Moment Ryan J. Reilly, Huffington Post
Some autopsies remain secret for years. Families of those killed by police want that changed Matt Hamilton and Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times
When You Have Diabetes, Even a Routine Police Encounter Can Turn Fatal Natalie Shure, The Nation
Half of Oklahoma Is Now Indian Territory. What Does That Mean for Criminal Justice There? Cary Aspinwall and Graham Lee Brewer, The Marshall Project
Patrolling Minneapolis’s Native American History Krithika Varagur, New York Review of Books