>Users:   login   |  register       > email     > people    


Progress being made on state prison reform
By theindependent.com
Published: 04/09/2015

Gov. Pete Ricketts and Scott Frakes, the new Department of Correctional Services director, are making fast strides in fixing the sentencing mess that was found in Nebraska’s prison system.

Last year, the Omaha World-Herald discovered that 750 prison sentences were miscalculated and that about 200 inmates were released early from prison. The reports revealed a culture in the corrections system that ignored court rulings and seemed designed to reduce the prison population at any costs.

Ricketts and Frakes want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

Read More.





Comments:

No comments have been posted for this article.


Login to let us know what you think

User Name:   

Password:       


Forgot password?





correctsource logo




Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of The Corrections Connection User Agreement
The Corrections Connection ©. Copyright 1996 - 2025 © . All Rights Reserved | 15 Mill Wharf Plaza Scituate Mass. 02066 (617) 471 4445 Fax: (617) 608 9015