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Surveys one guide to prison releases
By starherald.com- Paul Hammel
Published: 03/02/2015

LINCOLN — When state prison officials allowed a weekend furlough for a former gang member convicted of a felony gun crime, a scientifically devised risk assessment that is given to all prisoners helped drive that decision.

The inmate, Jermaine Lucas, was on furlough when he was shot and killed by Omaha police after he lunged for a gun in a 2012 standoff. The case led to questions about who should be furloughed.

Despite that high-profile failure in predicting the future risks of a prison inmate, officials involved in corrections in Nebraska as well as Iowa defend the use of such risk and needs assessments as a key player in reducing prison costs and repeat crimes.

They say that such surveys, when validated by research and supplemented with professional judgment and consideration of an inmate’s conduct in prison, can help focus limited corrections resources to the inmates who most need them.

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