Emotional testimony from two former inmates on a prison reform bill before Nebraska lawmakers. State Sen. Ashlei Spivey's LB 99 would place limits on the use of solitary confinement and end double ...

Gov. Jim Pillen Friday ordered state agencies to take steps to carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — including telling the Nebraska State Patrol and prison leaders to alert ...

An Omaha woman was charged after allegedly sneaking synthetic marijuana into the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services ...

BEATRICE – The new Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court gave his first State of the Judiciary Address to state ...

Two men got federal prison time Thursday for a string of organized break-ins at small-town pharmacies in Nebraska targeting the businesses' prescription drugs.

State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in ...

Travis Hohbein, 31, is accused of injuring the child, who has osteoporosis, is non-verbal, low-functioning, and is fed ...

An Omaha woman was booked into Lancaster County jail Wednesday after being accused of passing contraband to a Lincoln prison ...

A 16-year-old boy got 26 to 31 years in prison for escape, attempted assault, felony theft and misdemeanor theft.

The thieves hit pharmacies in central Nebraska in the early morning hours ... He, too, recently had been released from state prison for burglarizing pharmacies in Kearney, when he got involved ...