prisons

MPox Outbreak Detected In IA Correctional Facility

Hagel Puts Face On Advocacy For Imprisoned Vets

Michael Griffin talks to Tena Hahn Rodriguez, co-interim executive director of Black & Pink National, a nonprofit prison abolition organization headquartered in Omaha.

Lisa Knopp teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Nebraska Omaha and has written several books, including "Bread," "What the River Carries," and "Field of Vision." Her latest book is "From Your Friend, Cary Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row," which chronicles her friendship with Cary Dean Moore, who spent 38 years on death row before his execution in 2018.

Frakes To Step Down AS NDCS Director

Fortenberry Replacement To Be Elected Same Day As His Sentencing

A longtime state corrections worker will become the new warden at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution in southeast Nebraska. The Department of…

Nebraska’s largest and oldest state prison lost running water because of a plumbing issue, forcing inmates and staffers to use bottled water and portable…

Nebraska’s court system agreed to release a nonprofit group’s analysis of state criminal justice data after the governor’s office refused to release the…

Nebraska’s corrections director says the state's prison workforce shortage has become so severe that two facilities have cut back on the hours when…