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As young people engaged in peaceful protest in support of Black lives and against police brutality, law enforcement officers in Lincoln met those calls with a militarized response and brutal police practices.
In 2011, Nebraska state senators passed LB 191, a law designed to address prison overcrowding and reduce the expense of overincarceration.
Nebraska state prisons are in a state of chaos that is endangering the health, safety, and lives of prisoners and staff on a daily basis.
In March 2014, Larry Ball was first arrested for handing out Christian religious pamphlets outside of the Pinnacle Bank Arena. The pamphlets, designed and produced by Mr.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Nebraska and the law firm of Koenig | Dunne have filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of seven couples who seek state recognition of their marriages or who seek the freedom to marry in Nebraska.
Paul Gillpatrick and Niccole Wetherell are both incarcerated in Nebraska correctional facilities.