LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - Thirteen state senators are calling on the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee to get answers about several key aspects currently not known about the plan to turn a minimum-security prison in Central Nebraska into a regional ICE detention center authorities have dubbed “Cornhusker Clink.”

In a letter sent Wednesday to State Sen. Carolyn Bosn of Lincoln, who serves as chairwoman of the committee, the senators say the governor’s decision to use the Work Ethic Camp (WEC) in McCook as a federal immigration detention center raises “serious policy, legal, fiscal and practical questions.”

Last week, the governor’s office announced an agreement had been made with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to repurpose the existing facility to house Immigration

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