Nebraska prisoners have killed their cellmates while being double bunked. Lawmakers have yet to limit the practice. - Flatwater Free Press

Nebraska prisoners have killed their cellmates while being double bunked. Lawmakers have yet to limit the practice. - Flatwater Free Press

The nine or 10 phone calls Kevin Carter had with his mom each week he was held at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln produced only one vague foreshadowing of his death. Carter had a new cellmate, he told his mom. And he didn’t like him. “He always would say, ‘I love you’ two or three times during the conversation,” said Paige Carter, Kevin Carter’s mother. But her son seldom provided details about his experience in prison. Paige Carter h…