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| Legislative investigation probes too-early release of prisoners |
| By netnebraska.org- Fred Knapp |
| Published: 09/05/2014 |
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George Green, former top lawyer for the Department of Correctional Services, was the focus of a legislative investigative hearing Thursday on the premature release of hundreds of people from Nebraska prisons. The first person to testify was Linda Willard, a former assistant attorney general. Willard said she sent the Department of Correctional Services the Nebraska Supreme Court’s 2013 opinion that said the department was calculating sentences incorrectly. Then-Records Manager Jeannene Douglass replied that the court was wrong. But Willard said because Green had also been informed of the court’s decision, she assumed the Department would follow the law. Omaha Sen. Bob Krist suggested she should have done more. "I don’t think there was enough follow-through in the Department of Corrections to keep the state of Nebraska from breaking the law. And therefore I don’t think the attorney general or anyone in this chain did their job," Krist said. Read More. |
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