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| Inmate furloughs helped public safety and state's budget |
| By omaha.com- Joe Duggan |
| Published: 12/03/2014 |
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LINCOLN — Nebraska officials identified 40 million reasons to justify increasing the number of prison inmates released on parole and long-term furlough. Bob Houston, former director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, said this week that he supported greater use of the programs to help address chronic prison overcrowding. He and others were motivated to delay the substantial cost of operating and maintaining a new prison. “We were trying everything we could to push off as far into the future building an institution,” he said. “Every year we don’t build an institution, we save at least $40 million a year in operating costs.” Read More. |
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