Catching up on notable mid-summer stories and commentary

The middle of July continues to bring many criminal justice stories and commentaries worth a read, and so here is a round up of links to catch up:

From CNN, "How crime stats lie — and what you need to know to understand them"

From The Crime Report, "Dream Corps Launches Campaign to Close Federal Prisons"

From The Marshall Project, "Inside The Nation's Overdose Crisis in Prisons and Jails"

From The Marshall Project, "Everyone on Death Row Gets a Lawyer. Not Everyone Gets a Kim Kardashian."

From NJ.com, "N.J. has dismissed 88K weed cases under new marijuana law"

From Politico, "4 wealthy donors fuel overhaul of California's criminal justice system"

From the New York Times, "A Pause in Federal Executions, but Uncertainty About What’s Next"

From the Washington Post, "Mass incarceration is bad law enforcement policy. It's bad for the economy, too."