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| Report shows grievances led to riot at state prison |
| By columbustelegram.com- JoAnne Young |
| Published: 11/03/2015 |
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Inmate Lenaris Brown was captured on video May 10 at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution standing in the prison's main yard holding above his head a handwritten sign. It was the day a riot broke out at the southeast Nebraska maximum-security prison, and Brown later said he was holding up the list of grievances he and other inmates had written to show prison staff he believed were watching. The protest quickly got out of hand, but the picture of Brown shows the destructive and deadly event was not a result of spontaneous combustion but had a motive and agenda, said Ombudsman Marshall Lux. The ombudsman's office wrote a 48-page report, released Monday, as an independent response to the Department of Correctional Services' critical incident report. It covered the motivation, grievances, how the riot played out, management of the riot and other observations. Read More. |
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