The chairman of the Nebraska Unicameral’s Judiciary Committee has high hopes bills before his committee can help ease prison overcrowding by improving the odds inmates release from prison won’t return.
Senator Les Seiler of Hastings says the legislation isn’t meant to keep offenders who should be locked up out of prison. . .

 

Seiler says part of the plan is reverting back to programs that have worked in the past. . .

Seiler says studies of the Nebraska prison system indicate as many as 31-percent of the inmates behind bars in prison suffer from mental illness or substance abuse.