1. Video shows detention center conditions

• Rep. Joaquin Castro from Texas recently released a video and photos of migrants who are being held at a border facility under “awful” and unsanitary conditions.
• This is a rare glimpse into these border facilities since journalists or lawmakers are rarely allowed to tour the facility and were asked to leave their cellphones behind.
• Castro said because lawmakers have oversight authority, they should not be denied access or the ability to share their findings.
• Women held at the facility were “crammed into a prison-like cell with one toilet, but no running water to drink from or wash their hands,” Castro tweeted. Some had been separated from their children and held for more than 50 days, he said.
• Trump signed an emergency $4.6 billion border funding package into law this week after lawmakers split over putting restrictions on how the money can be spent.
• You can read more about the situation at the border HERE.

2. Citizenship question not on 2020 census

• Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query.
• Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would be starting.
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that while he respected the Supreme Court’s decision, he strongly disagreed with it.
• President Donald Trump had said after the high court’s decision last week that he would ask his attorneys about possibly delaying next spring’s decennial census until the Supreme Court could revisit the matter, raising questions about whether printing of the census materials would start as planned this month.
• Opponents of the citizenship question said the question would discourage participation by immigrants and residents who are in the country illegally, resulting in inaccurate figures for a count that determines the distribution of some $675 billion in federal spending and how many congressional districts each state gets.
• The Trump administration had said the question was being added to aid in enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters’ access to the ballot box. But in the Supreme Court’s decision, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four more liberal members in saying the administration’s current justification for the question “seems to have been contrived.”
• Read more about the census question HERE.

3. Chuck Person was broke in NCAA scandal

• Lawyers for former Auburn University assistant basketball coach Chuck Person said Tuesday the 13-year NBA veteran was broke and financially desperate when he joined a bribery conspiracy that cheated young athletes by steering them toward bribe-paying advisers and managers.
• They asked a judge in papers filed in Manhattan federal court to spare him from prison in the scandal that touched some of the biggest schools in college basketball.
• His lawyers say that since Person grew up poor and then suddenly came into millions of dollars without a clue how to manage it, it caused him to make bad decisions when his financial circumstances deteriorated.
• Prosecutors say Person, scheduled to be sentenced next Tuesday, accepted $91,500 in bribes to steer top players to a government cooperator posing as a financial adviser. Sentencing guidelines call for two years in prison though three other coaches who pleaded guilty to the same charge have received leniency.
• Person’s March guilty plea to a bribery conspiracy charge came nearly two decades after he was a regular presence on NBA courts, known as “The Rifleman” for lighting up scoreboards with his long-range shooting skills.
• You can read more about the case HERE.

4. Culverhouse back in the news

• Hugh Culverhouse, Jr. is back in the news, quite literally with a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling for people to sing “God Bless America,” not whistle “Dixie,” as an attack on Alabama’s recent abortion ban.
• “In enacting this law, Alabama is treating women as possessions rather than equal citizens with the inalienable right to control their bodies,” he wrote.
• In the letter, Culverhouse calls for, “Americans to fight back and join me in opposing this unconstitutional and immoral law by all means possible.”
• He then suggests that “residents and others doing business in Alabama” should consider moving their business out of Alabama and that parents should not send their children to any university or college in the state until the law is overturned.
• Last month, the University of Alabama’s board of trustees voted to return Culverhouse’s $21.5 million donation to the university and remove his name from the law school.
• Culverhouse said that it was because of his opposition to the passage of the abortion law, but the University released emails detailing how the board was planning on taking action against Culverhouse before he made his statement on abortion because of his ongoing attempt to interfere with the operations of the law school.
• You can read more about the ad from AL.com’s Hailey Auglair HERE.

5. AP News Briefs

• An Alabama sheriff says jail inmates were caught making some truly “disgusting” alcohol out of fermenting vegetables.
• News outlets report it turned up when dozens of officers conducted a shakedown for contraband Monday at the Autauga Metro Jail.
• Autauga County Sheriff Joe Sedinger says it was the first time he’d seen vegetables being used to make alcohol. He says the jail stopped serving inmates fruit years ago because they made wine with it.
• Sedinger says searchers also found an electronic cigarette altered to be used as a tattoo gun, as well as dice fashioned from the plastic ball that’s in bottles of roll on deodorant.
• The sheriff says inmates won’t be punished for the contraband. He just wants to remind them that he’s watching the jail closely.

• The 16-year-old involved in the wreck that killed Auburn radio announcer Rod Bramblett and his wife has been arrested and charged with manslaughter.
• A toxicology report indicated that Johnston Edward Taylor’s blood THC, which is the primary psychoactive component of marijuana and that he was driving 91 mph in a 55-mph zone.
• Taylor told authorities he fell asleep at the wheel and did not remember what happened.
• Taylor was charged as an adult and arrested at his Auburn home with a $50,000 bond. An official with the Lee County Jail said Monday evening he had been released. A court date for Taylor has not yet been set.

• An underage construction worker is dead after he fell while repairing the roof of an Alabama business.
• Al.com reports it happened about 11 a.m. Monday at Cullman Casting Corp., an iron factory in Cullman.
• The 15-year-old roofer, whose name was not released, was described by police as a Guatemalan national living in Alabama.
• Police Lt. Todd Chiaranda says the teenager stepped into one of the unsupported sections of the roof and fell about 35 to 40 feet.
• Chiaranda said there was safety equipment at the job site “but it was not used.” He says the boy was hired by W and W Restoration, which was subcontracted by Apex Roofing.
• An investigation is ongoing but Chiaranda says there’s nothing to lead investigators to believe it was anything other than an accident.

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