LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Tommy Redd has never served a prison sentence, but he has seen the effect of prison sentences on inmates through their art and writings.

The inmates “are starving for a way to voice their opinions.”

He’s giving them that chance.

He’s CEO of Unboxed, a magazine of collected life stories expressed through art, letters, poems and writings sent from prisons.

Redd works at the Food Bank of Lincoln as a distribution center assistant, and he puts out the magazine on his own time. The first issue of 1,500 copies came out in June 2014 and was sent to more than 1,100 penal institutions.

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) — A Schuyler man ruled competent for trial has taken a plea deal and been convicted of attempted murder for stabbing a woman.

43-year-old Amauri Herrera-Alvarez pleaded no contest on Wednesday in Colfax County District Court. Prosecutors dropped a weapons charge in exchange for his plea. His sentencing is set for Feb. 3.

Prosecutors say the incident was discovered on Nov. 2, 2014, outside a Schuyler apartment building. An officer cut a rope Herrera-Alvarez was using to hang himself from a tree. Inside the building they found the injured woman, who was in a relationship with Herrera-Alvarez.

Herrera-Alvarez intended to plead not guilty by reason of insanity but eventually was found competent to stand trial.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old boy has been accused of recording inside a girls restroom at a high school.

Lincoln Officer Katie Flood says the boy was referred to juvenile court in connection to the incident Monday.

Flood says a 14-year-old girl from Lincoln High School was using the restroom Monday when she saw a hand holding a cellphone come up from the next stall.

The girl confronted the boy, who was later interviewed by police and school administrators.

Flood says no video was found in the boy’s cellphone.

CENTER, Neb. (AP) — A northeast Nebraska man has been sentenced to five to eight years in prison for stealing cattle from a feedlot.

Timothy Ketelsen was sentenced Tuesday in Knox County District Couty. He pleaded no contest in September to charges of tax evasion, theft and illegal sale of livestock.

Court documents say Ketelsen’s former boss reported that 13 head of cattle had been stolen from the feedlot. Investigators traced the cattle to a livestock market in Yankton, South Dakota, which paid Ketelsen for them.

Investigators also say they found four other instances in which it appears Ketelsen stole cattle.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 37-year-old man has been given jail time and probation for assaulting another inmate and for attempting to set fire to a Lincoln apartment complex.

Online court records say Alaric Harden was sentenced on Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court. He’d pleaded no contest to charges of assault and of attempted arson after prosecutors lowered the original charges.

Authorities say Harden tried to set fire to the complex on July 26 and say Harden assaulted another jail inmate on Aug. 24, while awaiting prosecution on the arson charge.

Harden was given credit for 121 days he’s already served behind bars.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old Texas man has been imprisoned in Nebraska for a brutal beating.

Online court records say Stelson Curry, of Cedar Hill, Texas, was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court to 30 to 45 years. He’d pleaded no contest and was convicted after prosecutors lowered charges stemming from separate crimes.

Authorities say Curry and another man attacked 22-year-old Patrick Pantoja and 27-year-old Emmanuel Nartey, who were walking from an apartment to a college campus on Oct. 3, 2014. Pantoja was taken to a hospital with severe head trauma. James Price has been charged with aiding and abetting the assault.

In the other case, Curry was convicted of felony false imprisonment. The original charge was felony sexual assault.

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old Grand Island woman has been convicted of two charges stemming from a fatal hit-and-run collision on Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska.

Mandy MacDonald pleaded no contest on Monday to misdemeanor vehicular homicide and a felony count of leaving the scene of an injury accident. Prosecutors had lowered both charges in return for MacDonald’s pleas. Her sentencing is set for Feb. 9 in Cass County District Court.

Authorities say MacDonald lost control of her car on May 31 near the I-80 Greenwood exit and collided with another westbound vehicle. That vehicle ran into a roadside ditch and rolled, ejecting its driver, 50-year-old Kristin Olson, also of Grand Island.

Authorities say MacDonald fled but was stopped by a state trooper a few miles west.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus community was alerted to possible danger after security cameras showed what looked like two armed men in a campus parking garage.

But university police say the two turned out to be students playing some sort of game while shooting their airsoft guns.

University police Sgt. Aaron Pembleton said Tuesday that the two were spotted a little after 11 p.m. Monday by dispatchers using the cameras to check an unrelated matter. Students and staffers were warned via texts and emails to stay away from the area while officers checked the garage.

The officers later cited the two men for unlawful discharge of firearms inside city limits. Two other students with them were not cited.

Pembleton says all four attend classes at the university.