What We're Reading

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  Trauma on top of trauma: why more women are dying in jails

  Published on July 13, 2021

  Candice Norwood, for the 19th News, reports on new data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on in-custody deaths on the anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland. Norwood writes: "As with Sandra Bland, the majority of jail deaths occurred among people who had not been convicted of a crime, and about 40 percent in 2018 happened within the first seven days of admission."

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  Lost Opportunity, Lost Lives

  Published on June 29, 2021

  Reporter Lisa Armstrong examines how the coronavirus pandemic affected older people in prisons, who were particularly vulnerable and are also unlikely to reoffend.

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  Dead Man Waiting: A brief profile of deaths in Texas prisons among people approved for parole release

  Published on June 18, 2021

  A report by researchers at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin found an increase in the number of people who had been approved for parole and died while still incarcerated in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  For a second year, most U.S. police departments decline to share information on their use of force

  Published on June 9, 2021

  For the second time, the data that agencies voluntarily submit to the FBI on use of force is unusable because of low participation. The Washington Post reports that only 27% of departments across the country – and about 3% in Texas – participated in the data collection effort.

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  Latinos are disproportionately killed by police but often left out of the debate about brutality, some advocates say

  Published on June 2, 2021

  The Washington Post's Silvia Foster-Frau reports on the in custody deaths of Latinos in the U.S. She writes: "a review of databases that track police killings shows that while their cases have largely gone untold in the national discussion of police violence, Latinos are killed by police at nearly double the rate of White Americans."