What happens when a court-ordered receiver takes over a jail? In 2022, a federal judge in Mississippi, frustrated with persistently deplorable conditions inside the jail in Hinds County, ordered a receiver to take control of the facility. County officials challenged the designation and, nearly three years later, control of the jail still hasn’t changed hands (and many of the same problems still exist). We talked to an expert about what a receiver does and what a receivership would mean both for people incarcerated in Hinds County and for jail staff. From TMP’s Jackson newsroom, Daja E. Henry has our story. The Marshall Project

A task force to investigate Tesla vandals. No task force for “war plans” fiasco. The FBI hasn’t announced an investigation into any of the Trump administration officials who improperly (and perhaps illegally) texted war plans to one another earlier this month. But the bureau made it very clear again that it considers vandalism against Tesla dealerships to be “domestic terrorism.” On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the formation of a task force to pursue Tesla charges. NBC News More: Meanwhile, police in Washington, D.C., are reportedly investigating alleged Tesla vandalism at dealerships as a political “hate crime.” WUSA9

Let 14-year-olds do the hard work. Some Florida legislators want to use child labor to fill positions that were previously filled by asylum-seekers and other migrants. Miami Herald Related: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago are detaining undocumented immigrants they encounter while serving warrants for other people. These “collateral detentions” were the subject of a 2022 class action court-approved settlement intended to limit their use. ProPublica Members of one Wyoming community say thanks, but no thanks, to a private prison company that wants to build an immigration jail in town. WyoFile

Long before the case of Mahmoud Khalil, there was the case of Harry Bridges. It’s been nearly 90 years since the U.S. government tried to deport the Australia-born labor leader for his alleged ties to communist Russia. The similarities between his case and the Khalil case are remarkable. Ultimately, Bridges prevailed at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Bulwark Related: Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, has sued the Trump administration to prevent her threatened deportation. She has been living in the U.S. since she was 7. The New York Times

Rights without remedies in Maverick County, Texas. The public defense system there is broken, forcing residents to spend months in pretrial detention for minor crimes or even where no crimes have been charged at all. In other instances, people have been left languishing behind bars for months after completing their sentences because no one advocated for their release. The county’s records-keeping practices are “atrocious,” experts say. The Texas Tribune/The New York Times TMP Context: For many, a lawyer is a luxury they cannot afford despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s recognition of a right to counsel. The Marshall Project

Prosecutors in El Paso County, Texas, have offered a plea deal to Patrick Crusius, the racist gunman who killed 23 people in a mass shooting at a Walmart in 2019. The Texas Tribune Crusius is already serving 90 consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to federal hate crimes. The Texas deal would allow him to avoid a potential death penalty. Prosecutors say they made the offer after consulting with the families of victims. The Associated Press

Massachusetts officials, including Boston’s mayor, responding to ICE’s recent enforcement operation in the state, say that ICE agents detained asylum-seekers and other migrants without criminal records who posed no threat to public safety. State and city officials also say they have long cooperated with federal immigration agents. The Boston Globe

New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law a new bail measure on Tuesday. The new law will make it harder for people to get released on bail by eliminating the role of magistrates, who made initial bail decisions when a judge wasn’t available. The Boston Globe TMP Context: What the state of bail reform looked like nearly five years ago. The Marshall Project

Kevin Burns is a preacher on death row in Tennessee. He faces execution for a felony murder conviction nearly three decades ago. “I just choose to focus on my purpose for being here, what God wants out of me: to remain faithful and to continue to minister and encourage my brothers and myself,” he said in a recent interview. The Tennessean

The Justice Department will investigate Illinois’ treatment of people with developmental disabilities. State officials say they’ve already put into place reforms that have begun to address problems of poor treatment. ProPublica/Capitol News Illinois

A system meant to protect survivors shouldn’t work this way. A California domestic violence law is so poorly written, and unevenly enforced, the victims are often charged along with their attackers. Some legislators are trying to fix the problem. CalMatters

None of this is normal. The U.S. “in 2025 no longer has an independently led national law-enforcement organization. It no longer has a Department of Justice whose leadership is following the mission to serve the American nation and its Constitution.” The Atlantic

Next, they came for the lawyers. The choice by big law firms to “accommodate” Trump’s attacks, “either through action or silence, is deeply wrong. It weakens the rule-of-law system on which all Americans depend—a system in which the rules are publicly known and set in advance, not subject to the whims of arbitrary vendettas.” The New York Times

Uncharted territory. “It is unprecedented for the federal government to proceed with a challenged action while in a court hearing on whether they can lawfully do so. It is a subversion of the rule of law.” The New York Review of Books

Protecting your digital privacy at the U.S. border. There are some steps you can take to protect your rights when U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees start poking around in your cellphone or laptop. Wired More: ICE didn’t start violating rights two months ago. The federal agency, founded in 2003, has been doing so for two decades. MSNBC

There is a mental health crisis in rural Texas. There are simply too many people struggling with their mental health and too few counselors, doctors, advisers and other professionals available to help them. Here’s what the fight looks like in Sweetwater, Texas. Texas Observer

The Supreme Court at work. Two justices want to reconsider the court’s precedent on the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses who testify against a defendant. Scotusblog More: The justices heard oral argument on Monday in an immigration case unrelated to the new ones challenging Trump administration policies. Courthouse News Service

#MeToo voices in statehouses across the country. At least 147 state legislators in 44 states have been accused of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct since 2017, a news investigation reveals. The Associated Press

The Trump administration’s war on public health and safety. The National Institutes of Health just defunded a study on domestic violence, possibly because the project had the word “equity” in its title. Mother Jones

More incarcerated people are training to contribute to Paper Trail, an in-house print newspaper written, edited and produced by prisoners at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. “ It's been amazing to be a part of something starting here for women that inspired a lot of women,” said Megan Hogg, an incarcerated writer for the paper. LAist