For years, Nebraska’s prison system has twin crises: Too many prisoners, and not enough employees to guard them. Paying the Price examines the causes and outcomes of the state’s overcrowded prisons.
A Flatwater Free Press series is focused on the answer to that question, and diving deeper into the corporate farms, multinational corporations, famed billionaires and even a powerful church who are buying huge swaths of Nebraska farmland.
Omaha spent decades cleaning up dust from a lead smelter that poisoned residents. But the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica found that contamination remains.