ICE detains people in secret. We’ve just sued to help make it public. The Marshall Project on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to force those agencies to disclose the people in their custody. The suit, filed on The Marshall Project’s behalf by Chicago-based public-interest law firm Loevy & Loevy, seeks access to the names, ages and locations of everyone in ICE’s detention database. We believe this to be the first lawsuit seeking access to the full database since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. “We are seeking the same transparency and access to information that have existed within the criminal justice system for centuries,” says Jennifer Peter, TMP’s editor-in-chief. The Marshall Project

“The city needs to get its act together about the culture at the city jail.” There have been at least 22 deaths at the St. Louis Justice Center since 2022 and our new investigation reveals three main causes. People frequently die in that aging jail because of untreated medical conditions, drug use or the consequences of addiction, or suicide. The jail has long faced significant problems, including low staff levels, inadequate medical care and gaps in the monitoring of detainees. Now there’s been a rise in the jail’s population as well. In collaboration with St. Louis Public Radio, TMP’s Ivy Scott and Ilica Mahajan and STLPR’s Lacretia Wimbley have the story. The Marshall Project

Election 2026 is less than two weeks away. Some national security officials have begun warning state governments and congressional leaders about the possibility that Trump administration officials will try to interfere in the midterm elections. The Washington Post Homeland Security officials asked the agency that is supposed to protect elections to obtain and then hack a voting machine. The initiative shocked staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who say they were told by Trump officials not to alert the company that makes the machines if they discovered flaws. ProPublica How the Trump administration’s claims of widespread noncitizen voting fall apart. The New York Times

Immigration nation. A U.S. citizen in California was hospitalized over the weekend after ICE agents pinned him to the ground in handcuffs. The New York Times The Texas man who died in ICE custody over the weekend was a lawful permanent resident, ICE now says. The Texas Tribune The family of a Maryland man who died in ICE custody in late September has yet to receive an explanation for what happened. The Washington Post More: Mahmoud Khalil, the lawful permanent resident detained by federal immigration officials for his participation in pro-Palestinian protests, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to permit federal judges to more quickly evaluate and resolve detention cases. The Associated Press

Thousands of acts of child abuse, captured on a California mansion’s monitors. Police in Los Angeles County arrested Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang earlier this month for what prosecutors say is an “unprecedented case of child abuse.” The couple gathered more than 20 babies into their mansion through surrogates and then allegedly watched on 32 surveillance cameras as nannies physically abused them. Prosecutors say Xuan himself participated directly in some of the abuse. The couple, who have pleaded not guilty to the charges and have tried to overcome an extraordinarily high bail amount, allegedly kept at it even after they were briefly jailed on suspicion of child abuse last May. The New Yorker

Florida executioners killed William Reaves by lethal injection on Tuesday for the 1986 murder of a law enforcement officer. It was the state’s 18th execution of the year and Reaves was the eighth prisoner over 70 to be killed by the state this year. The Associated Press

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Toforest Johnson, who has spent nearly three decades on the state’s death row for a murder he almost surely did not commit. AL.com He was convicted in 1998 of murdering a Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy in a case marked by questions of police and prosecutorial misconduct. Johnson never wavered in his claims of innocence. States Newsroom Some of journalist Beth Shelburne’s dogged reporting on this case. WBRC Related analysis: A shaky conviction. The Washington Post

Mississippi’s attorney general says the police officer who responded to a shoplifting call at a mall in June by firing at a moving vehicle was justified in using force, even though the officer killed a 1-year-old boy who was inside the car. Mississippi Today The police shooting of Kohen Wiley drew national attention and criticism. Officials still haven’t identified the lawman who fired into the car or released body camera video of the incident. The Associated Press

A federal appeals court last week ruled that a lawsuit against Michigan corrections officials and nine prison employees may proceed toward trial. Three incarcerated women filed a lawsuit claiming that pervasive mold inside the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility constitutes a violation of their constitutional rights. States Newsroom

A federal trial judge in Dallas, Texas, has been formally accused of misconduct for abandoning her work in August. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown, a Trump nominee, faces a hearing over accusations of hurling racist insults at judges and staff, failing to perform her job, and other misconduct. ABA Journal

A new golden age of sleaze. The trend toward gross political and corporate corruption didn’t start with either of the two Trump administrations. It started decades earlier with persistent Republican attacks on corporate liability and political accountability. “Although the Court has placed politicians beyond the law’s reach, at least for now, the public gets it. Hopefully, a new Congress will too.” The Atlantic

Easier said than done. There are three things reformers can do to limit the damage done by wrongful convictions: Open police and prosecutor files to the defense team before trial, require judges to take a more proactive approach to ensuring pretrial discovery, and holding prosecutors accountable for not disclosing evidence after a conviction. Law 360

The Trump administration’s authoritarian pressure on Rep. Ilhan Omar is patently obvious. “The Justice Department has done institutional damage to itself, yet again, by letting politics drive its prosecutorial tactics.” New York Magazine

Even a botched execution won’t stop the machinery of death. A three-candidate governor’s race in Arkansas reveals broad support for the death penalty. One candidate wants to expand capital punishment. The other two want voters to know they’ll permit executions. Arkansas Advocate More: What people in prison think of the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. Prison Journalism Project

Another libertarian argument against the Trump administration’s restrictions on Temporary Protected Status. “Immigration policy is increasingly subject to presidential whims, and due to lengthy processing times and narrow qualifications, more durable immigration pathways such as asylum and refugee status are often inaccessible to eventual TPS beneficiaries.” Reason

“[It’s] corruption at its best.” The Trump administration’s purge of veteran FBI agents specializing in public corruption cases last year may have spared the late Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Jim Clyburn from bribery charges. ProPublica

A search for accountability in Oregon following a school shooting. The state’s gun laws are considered relatively strict, yet they still don’t provide the families of victims with many options to hold the shooter’s mother responsible for his actions. The New York Times More: The parents of one of the victims of last week’s shooting have hired a lawyer to investigate how the teenage gunman got the weapon he used and how stringent the elementary school’s security protocols were. The Associated Press

A deal is a deal, or is it? People who say they were victims of abuse as children in the state’s care asked the New Hampshire Supreme Court last week to reinstate funding for a state settlement fund designed to help compensate them for their injury. The fund was established in 2022 but was cut back by Gov. Kelly Ayotte in 2025. States Newsroom

“If you vote for pedophiles, it’s time for Mississippi to pick a new senator.” Two survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking are appearing in three campaign advertisements against Republican lawmakers in Kansas, Mississippi and Florida. MS Now

“Even a field stone – something – just to say that these people once existed.” Vermont’s corrections department owns and maintains a small cemetery in Windsor, a town without a prison since 2017, and incarcerated people who die behind bars with no family are still laid to rest there. There’s an effort to clean up the gravestones and update burial records. VTDigger