CONTENTS:|Five Juvenile Lifers Are Among The Twenty Longest-Serving Lifers In Nebraska By Mel Beckman|Sixteen Appointed To Douglas County Re- Entry Task Force By Michael Myers|Circles Of Support And Accountability For ...

CONTENTS:|Nebraska|Nebraska Democratic Party Convention Supports Ending Juvenile Life Sentences By Mel Beckman|Trevelle Taylor, Age 17, Becomes The 25th Juvenile Incarcerated In Nebraska With A Life Term|Funeral Visits By ...

CONTENTS:|Budget Reductions At The Nebraska Department Of Correctional Services By Robin Spindler|Supreme Court Puts A Limit On Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences For Youth|Trying To Do What Fr. Flanagan Would Do|Quotes ...

CONTENTS:|Assisting Victims Of Crime By Jo Anna Briggs|Recidivism And The Need For Transitioning Guidance By Connie Gibbs|Follow Up On Funeral Visits: Searching For Compassion By John Krejci|Book Review By Amybirky|Commutations ...

CONTENTS: | Good people are at work, but the justice system is fragmented, by John Krejci | The Interstate Corrections Compact explained, by Scott R. Frakes, Director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | ...

CONTENTS:|The need for trauma-informed correctional care, by Marla Sohl|Reflections on reform, restorative justice, and reminiscences, by John Krejci|MCC 180 Re-entry Assistance Program provides a hand up, not a hand out, ...

CONTENTS:|A message from the Inspector General for Corrections, by Doug Koebernick|Overcrowding in Nebraska’s prisons is causing a medical and mental health care crisis, by Danielle Conrad|More programming -- key to reducing ...

CONTENTS:|The Execution of LB75, by Shakur Abdullah|Keep prison reform on the front burner, by John Krejci|A tribute to the Douglas County Public Defender’s Office, by Joanna Lindberg|Why U.S. criminal courts are so dependent ...

CONTENTS:|The legislature and a new focus on violent crime, By David Ditter|Transformation or punishment? by Ken Ackerman|New reentry programming, by Mel Beckman|Rethinking Privilege, by Dr. Kathleen Rettig|The JUSTUS15VOTE ...

CONTENTS:|LB 202 offers life-sentenced youth the hope of a commutation hearing after serving 20 years in prison, by Mel Beckman|Prisoners sentenced to life for crimes com- mitted as teens under age 18, who have served 20 ...