This story is part of a collection of stories in the “Nebraska behind bars” series produced by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications 2025 in-depth reporting class.
Rudy Valentino Johnson sat in a classroom at Southeast Community College’s Center for People campus in Lincoln on a Thursday in April. He was there to learn math and English.
He was also in the last month of his prison sentence, and was released on parole on May 16…