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| Corrections director outlines plan for Lincoln facility |
| By starherald.com |
| Published: 02/12/2016 |
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Transforming Nebraska's troubled prisons must begin by expanding and improving lower-security facilities, the state corrections director told lawmakers, who questioned whether such changes could be implemented quickly enough to avoid a possible federal lawsuit. The Legislature's appropriation committee questioned Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Director Scott Frakes on Wednesday about his $26.1 million budget request to renovate a coed community corrections facility in Lincoln. The facility was built for 200 people, but currently houses nearly 400 male and female inmates. Frakes' proposal would expand it to include a 160-bed women's-only space, where female community custody inmates from Lincoln and Omaha would be consolidated. In an interview last month, Frakes called coed custody a "failed experiment" and said Nebraska's female inmates, many of whom have experienced physical and emotional abuse, need spaces they can feel safe. "The bigger issue to me is that we are placing our female offenders in immediate proximity to the type of people that have presented challenges to them all their lives," he said. Read More. |
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