State lawmakers are “learning on the go” about Nebraska’s plan to transform its McCook-based Work Ethic Camp from a rehabilitative center to a migrant detention facility over the next couple of months ...

It is expected to be up and running as a detention center for people awaiting deportation and immigration proceedings over ...

The president of Nebraska's correctional employees union said he "of course" has some concerns on prison capacity after the ...

An existing minimum security prison work camp in southwest Nebraska will be used as a new immigration detention facility.

This state’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration detention center is being created in the ...

DHS announced Aug. 19 that it will use a minimum-security prison in southwest Nebraska as an immigration detention facility.

McCOOK, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced Tuesday that the Work Ethic Camp (WEC) in McCook will be used as a ...

A day after the major announcement from Gov. Jim Pillen, there are still a lot of questions about the ICE detention facility ...

It's hard to know where to begin a discussion about the Work Ethic Camp's impending transition to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility--but I know how to end it. We will get ...

Nebraska Corrections Director Rob Jeffreys said the facility in McCook provides a “central Midwest hub for ICE.” He said surrounding states will be able to use the detention center as well. The 186 ...

My family and I lived in McCook for eight and a half years, and though we now reside in southern Arizona, our hearts remain with this town. It is with that love that I write to express my profound ...

The governor says the plan is part of a series of new state-federal partnerships to support Trump’s immigration enforcement ...