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Donate Edited by Andrew Cohen View in browser Join The Marshall Project for a concert: We hope you’ll join us and Musicambia on October 28 in NYC for Redemption Songs, a one-of-a-kind show that combines live music, storytelling, and journalism to tell the story of mass incarceration, one song at a time. Learn more and get your tickets. Pick of the News Pink ribbons are rare behind bars. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but it’s not certain that incarcerated women in Texas know much about the benefits of regular screenings. What is certain is that sensitive breast cancer education and treatment are lacking in state penitentiaries, where care is rare and often comes with the hassle of prison transport. And, for too many women, the screening and the treatment come too late. “So the next time you see a pink ribbon on a T-shirt or jacket, I hope you’ll think just for a moment, about where that ribbon never traveled,” writes Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer in Texas, in the latest installment of our “Life Inside” series. The Marshall Project Time for a “911 Callers Bill of Rights.” Author Rebecca Neusteter’s trenchant new book, “911, What’s Your Emergency?” follows a decade of research and reporting from inside dispatch centers. She’s covered both the use and abuse of the national emergency hotline, as well as recent efforts to reform an old and, some say, outdated system. “I would argue it’s the most democratic tool we have available to us. You don’t have to be a citizen to call. You don’t have to be law-abiding to call,” Neusteter tells TMP’s Christie Thompson in this new interview. “We need to get back to the place where 911 is a triage function, and where 911 professionals have the time to have fact-based conversations,” Neusteter says. The Marshall Project Never mind. President Donald Trump now says that the execution of Nidal Hasan won’t be livestreamed after all. The Guardian Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced weeks ago that Hasan’s military execution would be public. His plan for a Reality-TV execution came apart on Thursday. The Atlantic Hasan was convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. CBS News The American people overwhelmingly reject the idea of a public execution, a new poll says. The Washington Post Related commentary; Hegseth’s ill-fated plan to hold a public execution in December was straight out of the Taliban’s playbook in Afghanistan, right down to the religious justifications for the grotesque display. The New Yorker Autocracy watch. ICE officials are planning to spend $100 million to deploy 142 intelligence agents in more than two dozen cities and the District of Columbia as part of a sweeping domestic surveillance program. The new program is called the Enforcement and Removal Operations Overwatch and National Security Enforcement. “It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency,” says an ACLU analyst. The American Prospect The body cameras worn by ICE agents should be activated automatically when an agent draws a weapon or turns on a car siren, concludes a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. ICE officials immediately rejected the suggestion. The Associated Press Immigration nation. A federal appeals court this week blocked enforcement of a new California law that requires ICE agents to display their names and badge numbers. The New York Times Texas Gov. Greg Abbott keeps proclaiming there is an emergency at the border to justify expanded executive authority in the state. Trump keeps claiming the Texas border is secure. ProPublica The New York man who was shot by an ICE agent last week was fired upon without warning, his lawyers say. That contradicts ICE’s account of the episode. The Associated Press Migrant children are increasingly forced to proceed with immigration hearings without the help of a lawyer due to a contract dispute. The New York Times N/S/E/W Three young students and a teacher were shot dead at