Lots of recommended reading for a long weekend

A busy week has meant a lot of interesting stories and commentaries have piled up on my "to read" list.  Fortunately, I have a long weekend to catch up.  Here is a (only partial) list of pieces that seem worth checking out:

From the Albuquerque Journal, "It makes humane, fiscal sense to release nonviolent inmates"

From Business Insider, "4,000 Americans were sent home from prison during COVID. They repaired their lives, but now could be forced back to prison because of a ridiculous technicality."

From the Christian Science Monitor, "How race shaped the South’s punitive approach to justice"

From The Crime Report, "Time to End Crack-Cocaine Disparity Once and For All: Police Group"

From The Marshall Project, "Prisons Have a Health Care Issue — And It Starts at the Top, Critics Say"

From The Marshall Project, "Lost Opportunity, Lost Lives: During the pandemic, prison officials could have prevented sickness and death by releasing those who were most vulnerable to coronavirus and least likely to reoffend — older incarcerated people."

From Newsweek, "The End of Mass Incarceration Is Within Reach"

From New York, "Progressives Don’t Need to Downplay Rising Homicides"

From the New York Times Magazine, "I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?"

From Politico, "Can Journalism Wean Itself Off the Cheap Clicks of Bad Crime Coverage?"

From the Texas Observer, "A Wrongful Execution in Texas Points to the Fallibility of the Death Penalty"

From the Washington Post, "What’s striking about Biden’s crime plan? It actually focuses on reducing crime."

From The Washington Times, "Building off the First Step Act"