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| AG could help with prisons |
| By kearneyhub.com- J.L. Schmidt |
| Published: 09/18/2014 |
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A suggestion by outgoing Attorney General Jon Bruning to add attorneys to his staff to handle matters at the Department of Corrections just makes sense. His suggestion came the day after a special Legislative Committee hearing on the early release of inmates. During that 12-hour hearing, the top attorney at the Department of Corrections told lawmakers that he didn’t bother to read a state Supreme Court ruling on sentencing until an Omaha World-Herald investigation revealed that mistakes were made. Several attorneys in the department were allowed to resign instead of being fired and other staff were disciplined after the newspaper reported that several hundred inmates were released early because their release dates were miscalculated. The legislative committee, already formed to look at other issues — lack of mental health treatment for an inmate who murdered several people within a month of his release and a work-release inmate whose negligent driving in a state van killed a woman — also tackled the early release issue. Read More. |
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