LINCOLN- Earlier this month, the estate of deceased Nebraska inmate Kevin Carter filed an updated federal lawsuit alleging that then-State Corrections Director Scott Frakes and 10 other prison officials were negligent and reckless in their housing of Carter, who was placed in the same cell with a reportedly paranoid and delusional convicted murderer.

On November 6th, 2020, a week after Carter was housed in a cell with Nebraska State Penitentiary inmate Angelo Bol, Carter was found unresponsive under a bed sheet and later pronounced dead. The lawsuit, amended earlier this month, claims that prison medical officials were "aware of the dangers posed by Bol, especially when he was unmedicated."

Bol, the lawsuit alleges, told prison officials that he didn't want to be housed in the same cell as Carter because he believed he was "connected to a Sudanese tribe that had hired Carter to kill him." Prison officials, the lawsuit claims, were "indifferent" to the risks posed by Bol. Nebraska's prison overcrowding issue, which includes the State Penitentiary that held an average of 205 inmates per day above its design capacity last year, was cited as a problem in the Carter lawsuit.

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