(Lincoln, NE) -- The Nebraska State Penitentiary is moving away from a lockdown. State Department of Correctional Services director Scott Frakes said inmates were given a little more freedom after the status change on Friday, but that outside visits were being canceled at least through the weekend. Frakes said the penitentiary went into lockdown last Wednesday so that organized and intensive searches could be conducted. He said no single incident spurred the action, but that there were a number of recent assaults and contraband discoveries that prompted it.
State Penitentiary Lockdown Eased
