Sean Smith
A screenwriter and creative executive, Sean moved to LA years ago and refuses to leave. He misses Al’s Bar, Hop Louie and the chickens of Echo Park. Sean is a graduate of Harvard, Stanford and USC’s School of Cinema-Television.
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COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 16
Sean Smith presents Part 16 of his week by week analysis of the news stories aggregated in Crime Story Daily related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning June 28. WEEK 16 (JUNE 28-JULY 4) There were unexpected surges in coronavirus infections in states including Arizona and Florida during the week of June 28, forcing several governors to roll back their reopenings. On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned a Senate committee that the number of new COVID-19 cases...
COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 15
Sean Smith presents Part 15 of his week by week analysis of the news stories aggregated in Crime Story Daily related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning June 21. WEEK 15 (JUNE 21-27) At his Tulsa, Oklahoma campaign rally on Saturday, June 20, President Donald Trump disputed the efficacy of mass testing for the coronavirus. “Here’s the bad part,” Trump confided. “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people slow...
COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 14
Sean Smith presents Part 14 of his week by week analysis of the news stories aggregated in Crime Story Daily related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning June 14. WEEK 14 (JUNE 14-JUNE 20) Twenty-one states saw an increase in their average, daily new coronavirus cases over the week leading to June 14, with Alabama, Oregon and South Carolina recording the biggest spikes. Nearing its annual recess, the Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination...
COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 13
Sean Smith presents Part 13 of his week by week analysis of the news stories aggregated in Crime Story Daily related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning June 7. WEEK 13 (JUNE 7- JUNE 13) On a June 1 conference call with governors, President Donald Trump hinted at his preference for “domination” as a legitimate official response to constitutionally protected protest. “I must say, it got so bad a few nights ago that the people wouldn’t have minded an occupying force,” Trump said of widespread protests against...
COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 12
Sean Smith presents Part 12 of his week by week analysis of the news stories aggregated in Crime Story Daily related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning May 31. WEEK 12 (MAY 31- JUNE 6) On Sunday, May 31, as mass protests continued nationally against police brutality and the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, 41 cities, including Washington, D.C., imposed overnight curfews; many were extended through mid-week. Monday evening, police and National Guard units cleared demonstrators from D.C.’s Lafayette Square with flash-bang explosions and tear gas...
COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 11
CRIME STORY’S Sean Smith continues his weekly analysis of the news stories aggregated in CRIME STORY DAILY related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. By reconsidering early reporting on the crisis in the light of subsequent developments, CRIME STORY hopes to point out trends in the narrative of COVID-19 and the prisons. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning May 24. WEEK 11 (MAY 24-MAY 30) The New York Times commemorated Memorial Day by devoting the entire front page of its Sunday, May 24 edition to a list of the almost 100,000 Americans...