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Nebraska Senators Made Progress

Nebraska Senators Made Progress

Senator Tom Briese Photo: WNAX


While much of the attention in this years Nebraska legislative session was on property taxes, Senators also managed to pass almost three hundred bills.

Senator Tom Briese of Albion says they passed a balanced budget…

There were several attempts at prison reform. Briese says that will need more work….

Prisons are rapidly approaching critical levels of overcrowding.

Briese says those needed types of reform are hard to pass…

The head of the State Department of Corrections has said the state could face an overcrowding emergency next year.

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