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The air in cell blocks was sometimes thick with dust, the lawsuit says

The video of the incident had been described by elected officials in recent interviews as ‘disturbing’

Supervisors did not approve Sheriff Stacy Weber’s request Tuesday for more correctional officers, but agreed to revisit the discussion

The 53-foot semitrailers sit in a parking lot near the Greene County Jail

The developers say the system represents the first application of operations research to the assignment of prison inmates

The report indicates that the number of women in prison is expected to surpass capacity within a year and space will run out for male inmates in about two years

Defense lawyer Larry Krasner says he will immediately stop seeking the death penalty if elected and will prioritize education, drug treatment and job training

Counties are confounding state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated

Prison overcrowding is prompting lawmakers to take a new look at supervised release programs in Nebraska

Some civil rights groups and criminal justice experts are now seizing on this perfect storm of chronic deficits and crowded prisons to push for wide-ranging changes to the state’s sentencing laws