A mobile sign in front of a home owned by union official Dale Ridgeway reminds motorists of the current local prison crisis. AFSCME employees will be at the Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival to continue gathering signatures on a petition and to ask citizens to become involved in the issue.

Picture by Mike Fak
 

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