Criminal Justice System

Federal, State, and Local Policies

• Employers Are Still Avoiding Former Inmates (The Atlantic)
  

• Black Deaths and Police Convictions (The New York Times)

• America’s incarceration rate is at a two-decade low (Pew Research Center)
• California voted to go easy on criminals — this is how crime is doing 3 years later (The Blaze)
• Some States Are Still Locking Up Way Too Many People (Bloomberg)
• Men Are Finding Loopholes in US Law to Marry Children (Vice)
• There's A Good Reason Feds Don't Call White Guys Terrorists, Says DOJ Domestic Terror Chief (Huff Post)
• Trump's Executive Orders on Crime (CATO Institute) 

Policing and Police Force

• Recent episodes of ‘existing while black’ show darker side of racial profiling (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

• Police-related fatalities may occur twice as often as reported (Washington University News)

• Inside 100 million police traffic stops: New evidence of racial bias (NBC News)

• Black Cops on Both Sides of the Badge (The New York Times)
• Who Gets a Ticket? (The Society Pages)

• When Calling the Police is a Privilege (The Atlantic)
• Them vs. Us: How Black Cops View Policing in America (The Root)
• Is It Time to Reconsider Traffic Stops? (Citylab)
• No Systemic Evidence Of Racism When Police Use Deadly Force (The Daily Wire)
• Police kill unarmed blacks more often, especially when they are women (Washington University in St. Louis)
• More Than 250 Black People Were Killed By Police In 2016 (Huff Post)
• One sign protests over police are working: states are changing their laws (Vox)
• Police arrests are plummeting across California, fueling alarm and questions (Los Angeles Times)
• New Study Reveals Black Men Are Now Three Times More Likely To Be Killed By Police Than White Men (Essence)
• The LAPD's biggest conundrum: How to suppress crime without alienating South L.A.'s black residents (Los Angeles Times)
• All-knowing surveillance system detects gunfire all across America  (Fox News)
• Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm (Bloomberg Business Week)
• Harvard Study Shows Actual Number of People Killed by U.S. Police (Inverse Science)
• Body Cameras Have Little Effect on Police Behavior, Study Says (The New York Times)

Judiciary System

• Going to Court Without a Lawyer Is New Normal for U.S. Litigants (MSN)

• How Defense Attorneys Can Eliminate Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice (Sentencing Project)

• I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying (The Marshall Project)

• One Lawyer, 194 Felony Cases, and No Time (The New York Times)

• I Sent an Innocent Man to Prison (Vice)  
• Black Defendants Get Longer Sentences From Republican-Appointed Judges, Study Finds (The New York Times)

Correction Officers and Professions

• California examines prison guards' high suicide rate (AP News)
• The Unique Sexual Harassment Problem Female Prison Workers Face (Refinery29)
• For Black Motorists, a Never-Ending Fear of Being Stopped (National Geographic)