“Its inmate count increased 16% between 2010 and 2020 even as such numbers nationally fell by nearly a fourth”
Be interesting to see the demographic change for those ten years.
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Nebraska has the death penalty, but, in a deliberate Catch-22, Nebraska legislative kakistocrats have only legalized execution by lethal injection (for which no drug has been legalized). Nebraska Republican Governor Ricketts needs to hold the Nebraska legislators’ political feet to the fire to legalize other methods of execution to make more room in the crowded death row.
“Be interesting to see the demographic change for those ten years.”
Meant to include that - their population grew about 10% over those 10 years, so their incarceration rate only increased a bit over their population. And no doubt most of that growth was in the minority population, so it’s probably a push (at most) overall.