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| Officials hope reforms, not new prison, will address overcrowding |
| By netnebraska.org- Fred Knapp |
| Published: 12/16/2014 |
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At a news conference releasing the report of the special legislative committee he chaired, Omaha Sen. Steve Lathrop conceded the committee could not say for sure prison overcrowding contributed to hundreds of inmates being released from prison too early. Lathrop referred to the Nebraska Supreme Court’s Castillas decision on how sentences should be calculated. “We could not get a witness to come before the committee to say ‘Well, we didn’t follow Castillas because we had an overcrowding problem.’ But it certainly -- in view of all the other ways in which overcrowding influenced decisions and the willingness of people to ignore the law and in particular opinions from the Supreme Court -- leaves this committee concerned that that may well have been the case,” he said. Nebraska’s prisons currently hold nearly 2,000 more inmates than they were designed to. A master plan for the Department of Correctional Services released in October calls for adding more than 1,000 beds by building or adding on to prisons in Lincoln and Omaha, at a cost of $261 million. In an interview with NET News last week, Gov. Dave Heineman expressed continued reluctance to build. “I don’t think the people of Nebraska really want to build a new prison unless it’s absolutely necessary. And I believe there are still ways to avoid that because that’s a $250 million expenditure that’ll reduce the amount of funding we can put into education and job creation, and then the ongoing expenses,” he said. Read More. |
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