Between 2010 and 2020, Nebraska saw a 16% rise in its prison population. This was due in part to a gun violence bill passed by the Nebraska Legislature in 2009.
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Willie Barney, president of the Empowerment Network, runs an Omaha 360 violence prevention meeting in 2017.
MATT DIXON, THE WORLD-HERALD
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Barney and the Rev. Jeff Booth, pastor of a North Omaha church, talk to a resident after a rash of shootings in a North Omaha neighborhood in 2015. Such canvasses are part of Omaha 360’s strategy to stop gun violence.
RYAN SODERLIN, THE WORLD-HERALD
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Gang specialist Galat Toang talks with students at Monroe Middle School in 2020. He is one of four civilians in the Omaha Police Department trying to mentor kids and keep them out of gangs.
KAYLA WOLF, THE WORLD-HERALD
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This story by The Omaha World-Herald is part of a collaboration with Flatwater Free Press examining Nebraska’s prison crisis.
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