A case study in the bureaucracy of jail discipline. New York City corrections officials have fired a Rikers officer seven years after misconduct allegations were made by a detainee who says she was in a consensual but prohibited relationship with him. The officer, Leonard McNeill, was also accused of pressuring the victim to delay reporting that another guard, had raped her. The jail’s disciplinary case against McNeill was postponed for years by the possibility that criminal charges also would be brought against him. But a grand jury in the Bronx declined to indict McNeill. In collaboration with The City, Reuven Blau and TMP’s Keri Blakinger have our story. The Marshall Project

Police shootings. Five fatal policing shootings of transgender people, five instances of deadly force without an attempt at de-escalation, no charges filed against the officers. Insider More: Two Clear Creek, Colorado, sheriff’s deputies were indicted for second degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man who had called 911 for roadside assistance. The Associated Press Atlanta taxpayers will pay $1 million to the family of Rayshard Brooks, the 27-year-old Black man who was shot to death by police after he fell asleep in his car in 2020. NPR An $8 million settlement for the widow of Daniel Shaver, an unarmed man fatally shot by police in Mesa, Arizona, in 2016. Arizona Republic

Gun violence. The sheriff of El Paso County, Colorado — scene of the mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub earlier this month — has never invoked the state’s “red flag” gun restraining order. Colorado Sun The victims of last week’s Walmart shooting in Virginia had bonded together working the overnight shift. Then a night crew supervisor came in and shot them. The New York Times More: “America is enduring a historic stretch of gun violence that spiked at the start of the pandemic and has yet to subside.” The Washington Post Related commentary: The “mass shooting correspondent” is a tragic new beat for journalists. The Washington Post

“Just sick.” President Biden and congressional Democrats say they will push a bill to ban assault weapons. The Washington Post “The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick,” Biden said on Thanksgiving Day. The Associated Press With increasing frequency, right-wing extremists, encouraged by lax gun safety laws, are bringing guns and menace to protests. The New York Times More: A federal judge last week sentenced a Capitol rioter to 38 months in prison for the 38 minutes he was unlawfully inside the building during the January insurrection. The Associated Press

A special prosecutor in Missouri says racial bias tainted the capital conviction of Kevin Johnson, who is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Tuesday. Riverfront Times Related: The racial composition of juries can make a life-or-death difference in capital cases. St. Louis Public Radio

Colorado corrections officers are using metal shackles, so-called “four-point” restraints, on prisoners for weeks at a time, a new report alleges. State legislators are considering a new law that would restrict the practice. The Appeal TMP Context: When jail officials use restraint chairs as punishment. The Marshall Project

Officials in Los Angeles County, California, placed a deputy district attorney on leave for participating in a case against a Michigan software executive that may have been sparked by conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Los Angeles Times

Five civilian members of the conviction integrity unit in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, quit in protest last week over the unit’s prolonged inactivity. Cleveland.com

The Georgia Supreme Court last week reinstated the state’s new ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Women waiting for abortions were immediately turned away at clinics, the ACLU says. The Associated Press

The Eighth Amendment is dead in Alabama. Executioners and the politicians and lawyers who protect them routinely treat the condemned with “cruel and unusual punishment,” and judges too often look the other way. A recent botched execution is just the latest example. The Atlantic More: In Missouri, meanwhile, a judge upheld a state law that forbids a 19-year-old daughter from witnessing her father’s execution. NBC News

Progress in policing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For once, an encouraging report from a federal monitor who says the city is largely in compliance with its required reforms. Albuquerque Journal

The politics of terror. “The essential precondition for mass violence, it seems, is not guns or hate but a culture of terror, a common imaginary that includes the possibility of a mass shooting.” The New Yorker

Pipe up, Jack Smith. The new special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump can’t let partisan political operatives dictate the narrative like they did when special counsel Robert Mueller was investigating the Trump team’s Russia ties. The New York Times

Trauma is everywhere in prison. “There is a part of me who thinks one day I will be reunited with the trees and the grass and the part of me that was free. But I know I will never be that person, not after all of this damage and disorder.” Scalawag Magazine

“It’s going to take years.” Officials in Kansas commit to reviewing hundreds of cases tainted by the work of disgraced former Kansas City detective Roger Golubski. USA Today He was indicted in September on federal charges. New charges last week allege he protected drug traffickers and preyed on their victims. The Washington Post

A grim milestone for the third straight year. There have been more than 600 “mass shootings” in the U.S. again this year. NBC News

The oligarchs are holding on. Federal prosecutors have quietly issued a series of subpoenas over the past few months seeking to seize U.S. assets held by Russian oligarchs. The Justice Department has asked Congress for a new law that would streamline the process after delaying tactics by defense attorneys. The Wall Street Journal

“The Court finds that family visitation enhances rehabilitation.” A federal judge last week suggested that Elizabeth Holmes, the now-convicted founder of Theranos, serve her 135-month sentence in a low-security prison camp in Texas. Gizmodo

“The laws were abhorrent.” Maryland’s attorney general last week overturned decades of racist legal opinions rendered by his predecessors on topics like interracial marriage and segregation. The Washington Post