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| Prisoners Allowed Trips To Movies, Gym |
| By ketv.com |
| Published: 12/19/2011 |
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OMAHA, Neb. -- The I-Team’s Michelle Bandur investigates Nebraska’s prison work release system, which allows felons chances for recreational outings in public during their prison sentences, rules the Douglas County Attorney believes should be toughened. What looks like a college dormitory to many, is a Nebraska prison. The people who live at the Community Corrections Center in east Omaha are criminals, not college students. "Your residence is set up. You have a job,” described Edward Fabian, Assistant Warden of the center. "This isn't a walk in the park, because coming back to prison after getting off work is not the most enjoyable thing." The Nebraska Department of Corrections minimum security facility is for felons on work release. Mark Dahir is one of the felons who stays there. Dahir, arrested seven times for DUI, convicted of felony DUI, sentenced in June to a two to three year prison sentence. Two months after being sent to prison, Dahir moved to the facility and was placed on work release without a job. He left the community corrections center to apply for jobs. Over Thanksgiving, Dahir earned a 72-hour furlough, during which he spent the night with his family, went to a movie and worked out at Lifetime Fitness. "Passes and furloughs are based on them doing things that demonstrate the behaviors they we are looking for,” Fabian told KETV Newswatch 7’s Michelle Bandur. The I-Team took the information about Dahir’s furlough to Steve Murray, the man Dahir almost killed last February. While high on meth, Dahir slammed right into Murray, a father of four, who was on his way to work. "When you hear when someone is at Lifetime Fitness, it really puts into question the penal part of our system and how it works,” Murray told Bandur. "You can't help but be a little bothered by that on some level, that you can do what he did and end up out. It's not safe, frankly. It's not safe." For Douglas County’s lead prosecutor, it’s frustrating. "To me he was a person who thumbed his nose at the system,” Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine told Bandur. “He had numerous opportunities and for him to get any kind of breaks in the system at all is troubling." Read More. |
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