State Sens. Wendy DeBoer of Bennington and Victor Rountree of Bellevue answer questions from reporters about a proposed plan to transform a Nebraska prison center in McCook into an ICE detention center. (Erin Bamer/Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — There are still plenty of unanswered questions about plans to transform a Nebraska rehabilitative prison facility into a federal immigration center after a closed-door meeting with state lawmakers.

Some new details that did come up, however, revealed that the state initiated conversations with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the potential of converting the McCook center to ICE use.

Most of the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee attended a closed-door meeting Thursday to discuss the planned repurposing of the Nebraska Work Et

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