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Missouri’s prisons can be deadly for those with opioid addiction. State corrections officials systematically deny medical care to incarcerated people with opioid use disorder, a new federal civil rights lawsuit claims. State prisoners say some are punished, rather than treated, following overdoses. In some instances, the complaint alleges, prison guards deny opioid treatment to people who have been sober for long stretches, but deny it to people who are still using opioids behind bars. State officials say prisoners have access to treatment and medicine prescribed by prison doctors. Last year, over 7,000 incarcerated people were diagnosed with an opioid abuse disorder. From our St. Louis newsroom, TMP’s Ivy Scott has the story. The Marshall Project
When mental illness mixes with firearms. Kelli Caldwell’s mother is in a nursing home in Oregon, getting the psychiatric help Caldwell knows she needs. The family has endured the matriarch’s bouts of severe mental illness for years, including her need to collect firearms and threaten to use them on herself and others. On two occasions, Caldwell had to take loaded guns from her mother’s possession, without her knowledge. “Mom’s last gun is hidden away, still illegal for me to keep, also illegal for me to give to police, to destroy, or to otherwise dispose of,” Caldwell writes in the latest installment of our "Life Inside” series. The Marshall Project
Kristi Noem more. The Homeland Security Secretary was fired on Thursday by President Donald Trump, who then announced on social media that he wants to replace Noem with Markwayne Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma. The New York Times Trump acted after Noem testified on Capitol Hill this week that he had supported a $220 million advertising campaign urging immigrants to deport themselves. NBC News The firing followed Noem’s disastrous congressional testimony over the past two weeks. ProPublica Democrats cheered Noem’s ouster and called for the president to fire more administration officials. Politico Related analysis: It was self-promotion, not cruelty or incompetence, that did Noem in. The Atlantic
Weaponization and politicization at the Justice Department. Trump allies at the Justice Department tried but failed to gin up a criminal case against former President Joe Biden for his use of an autopen to sign documents while he was president. The New York Times A pattern emerges at the FBI: Director Kash Patel regularly fires FBI veterans within hours or days after unflattering media coverage of his leadership at the Bureau. MS Now Related commentary: The Office of Legal Counsel’s memorandum purporting to justify open-sea air strikes by the U.S. military against suspected drug smugglers is unworthy of the Justice Department. Lawfare
Immigration nation. DHS officials say they are investigating allegations that Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino made antisemitic comments about Minnesota’s Jewish mayor. The Associated Press Immigration lawyers have filed more than 24,000 habeas corpus petitions since the start of the second Trump administration, one of the few ways to possibly get people in detention centers released. Mother Jones Some U.S. citizens have been forced to move to Mexico when their spouses were deported from the U.S. NBC News The White House says it has wound down its immigration enforcement sweep in Minnesota. Tell that to the residents of Shakopee. Rolling Stone
Heads up, a workshop on investigating prison book bans on March 18. Journalists, researchers and volunteers interested in examining book bans in prisons across the country are invited to join this hands-on virtual event. Attendees will hear about the history of these bans from the authors of PEN America’s in-depth report on prison censorship and learn how to request and examine banned-book lists in their community. This work is part of a collaboration between MuckRock’s Data Liberation Project and The Marshall Project, which are teaming up to uncover which books are banned in state prison systems. The Marshall Project
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