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| Progress on state prison reform |
| By kearneyhub.com |
| Published: 04/22/2015 |
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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. The governor has announced that the corrections system is receiving an upgrade to its computer software to improve automation of sentence calculations that will be completed by October. This automation will remove the manual adjustment of sentences and the misinterpretation of court rulings that were being made. The upgrade will close the gaps in the old system where the errors were allowed to be made. Read More. |
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