Flatwater Explains: Why did Nebraska build a state prison in Tecumseh? - Flatwater Free Press

Flatwater Explains: Why did Nebraska build a state prison in Tecumseh? - Flatwater Free Press

Editor’s note: Flatwater Explains is an occasional series during which FFP reporters explain the people, places and things that make Nebraska what it is while answering questions that both longtime residents and first-time visitors might have. When it opened in 2001, Nebraska’s prison in Tecumseh was the largest in the state, built in part to house the state’s most dangerous inmates. But staffing woes have long plagued the prison that sits over …