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The prison reform movement that has helped send U.S. inmate numbers plummeting was born in deep-red Texas, offering a new criminal justice vision that appealed to both Republicans…
WARSAW, Poland – The three-year-old was too sick to leave his hotel room. He has had congenital heart disease since he was born. A second surgery was already…
Kim Young knows what it is like to travel hundreds of miles to have an abortion in a state she doesn’t call home. Told no Planned Parenthood doctor…
University of Nebraska volleyball coach John Cook entered the 2009 season having won 281 of his first 300 games – a ridiculous .937 winning percentage. He had already…
This story is a collaboration between the Flatwater Free Press and Nebraska Public Media. Flatwater Free Press · Nebraska’s Juvenile Detention Education The half hour before class is…
Six-year-old Elijah Wastell, of Omaha, started feeling anxious last fall. It came hard for the kindergartener at bedtime. His parents tried breathing exercise.They attempted to build up his…
When the pediatrician recommended Lisa Pascoe have her then-toddler tested for lead poisoning, she thought there was no way he could be at risk. Everything in her South…
It was Josh Carse’s big day. He awoke before sunrise on March 19, 2021, and donned his khaki prison uniform, ready to learn if he could leave the…
If Nebraska wants to reduce chronic prison overcrowding, it’s “a no brainer” to let well-behaved prisoners have a shot at earlier parole as a 2011 law intended, says…
In 2011, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wrote a bill that would allow well-behaved prisoners the chance to shorten their time behind bars. Eleven years later, that…