Today marks 150 days until - barring a miracle - Nebraska must officially declare an overcrowding emergency. Like #GroundhogDay, we've seen the same headlines year after year and progress hasn't come close to meeting the scope of problems. [GIF: Groundhog Day scene]pic.twitter.com/9adUacrBaV
2016: "Nebraska’s governor and Legislature seem to grasp the gravity of prison crowding"https://www.omaha.com/opinion/world-herald-editorial-next-steps-in-prison-reform-are-hardest/article_b6bd0d88-9e8c-5fb7-b7fb-09fcfdacac8a.html …
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2017: We announce our lawsuit challenging violations of the rights of people who are incarcerated. "Overcrowding and understaffing have long plagued Nebraska’s penal system."https://journalstar.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-prison-suit-highlights-conditions-that-must-change/article_003db362-fce5-5a8f-a054-c82e679bc350.html …
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2018: "[Corrections] has far to go in meeting the current challenge."https://www.omaha.com/opinion/editorial-nebraska-officials-have-much-work-to-do-to-bring/article_43af7416-fddf-5682-8c46-b402d9bad029.html …
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2019: “The state has some serious choices to make regarding how to address these continuing problems and we certainly don’t have the luxury of continuing to proceed down the same path.”https://www.kearneyhub.com/opinion/editorials/nebraska-prisons-in-deep-trouble/article_8d15a5b8-e39e-11e9-b688-f7477b4cd188.html …
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We'll continue fighting and we sincerely hope 2020 is the year we start to see real changes to our current, broken system of mass incarceration.
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