The Marshall Project news digest

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 “I don’t know how that’s remotely good stewardship or good leadership.” Sheriff officials in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, quietly changed the department’s employee handbook earlier this year to require jail staff to administer CPR on incarcerated people during serious medical emergencies. The change came after a series of in-custody deaths at the jail in which staff failed to provide adequate medical care. But most corrections employees haven’t been told of the change months later, according to their union. More confusing still, jail operation policies don’t require employees to perform CPR on people who can’t breathe. From our Cleveland newsroom, TMP’s Doug Livingston and Brittany Hailer have our story. The Marshall Project Autocracy watch. Federal agents seized the phone of Rep. Ilhan Omar when they searched her home in Washington, D.C. this week and sent about a dozen subpoenas to family members and others as part of the Trump administration’s retaliatory investigation of the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota. The New York Times The feds are reportedly trying to charge Omar with conspiracy and making false statements in her immigration paperwork. NBC News The ultimate goal of the investigation is to try to uncover evidence that would allow the administration to try to revoking Omar, a frequent target of racist attacks by President Donald Trump and other Republicans, of her U.S. citizenship. The Wall Street Journal Domestic violence victims face ICE detention. Women across the U.S. who have called the police to help with domestic violence have instead been detained by federal immigration agents. The Trump administration has limited how the federal government helps victims of domestic violence avoid deportation. ProPublica A group of immigrants has filed a lawsuit against ICE, claiming that federal immigration officials are refusing to return passports and other personal items to people after they are released from immigrant detention. The Wall Street Journal New details about police officials quietly signing ICE cooperation agreements only to get pushback from local officials and residents. The Washington Sun Less than three weeks to Election Day. Voting rights groups have sued Texas to force state officials to process more than 500,000 voter registration applications that were submitted through the Texas Department of Public Safety’s web portal. The Texas Tribune The Justice Department has threatened California officials over noncitizen voting claims. Reuters Republicans try to put Norman Smith on the midterm ballot. The gubernatorial race in Nevada focuses, for a bit, on a candidate’s response to an incarcerated man’s clemency request. The Nevada Independent More: President Donald Trump is now using pardons to persuade people to vote for Republican candidates. He just did so in Alaska. The New York Times Immigration nation. ICE officials are tracking protesters in a secret database titled “Agitator Log,” raising new questions about the Trump administration’s infringement of First Amendment rights. USA Today ICE agents are immediately rearresting people ordered released by federal judges in Minnesota. In some cases, federal agents have “swarmed” people before they leave courthouse property. MPR News Hundreds of people a day are placed on deportation flights at the Youngstown-Warren and Akron-Canton airports in Ohio. The Guardian ICE officials are inflating their arrest numbers in Vermont by counting people who were apprehended at the border by Customs and Border Protection agents. WBUR/Vermont Public N/S/E/W The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a