The 2022 Nebraska legislative session starts on Wednesday of this week and Senators will have a number of major issues on their hands.
One is dealing with prison overcrowding. A report last week shows Nebraska with the second highest percentage of inmates at over one hundred fifty percent of capacity, trailing only Alabama.
Senator Tom Briese of Boone says building a new prison could be a tough sell…
Briese says it would be very expensive to build a new prison….
Briese says staffing any new facility could also be a problem…
A new prison could cost up to three hundred million dollars.
