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New software is latest effort to prevent errors that led to early release of hundreds of Nebraska prisoners
By omaha.com- Paul Hammel
Published: 09/22/2016

LINCOLN — State legislative leaders said that a computer upgrade announced Wednesday to more accurately calculate release dates of prison inmates was long overdue.

On Saturday, a new software system will go online that Corrections Department officials believe will eliminate the chances of a repeat of a scandal uncovered in 2014 that resulted in the mistaken, early release of hundreds of inmates.

Three senators who dug into the matter on a special investigative committee said the prison system needed such an upgrade 10 or 15 years ago.

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