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Sen. Steve Lathrop noted that under current projections, the state’s prisons would add an additional 1,300 inmates by 2030. The state would need yet another prison on top of the
Nebraska lawmakers failed to invoke cloture and end debate Wednesday morning on legislative bill to enact prison sentencing reforms.
State senators started their day at 9 a.m. and after advancing a major tax cut package, went to work on a plan to fix Nebraska's overcrowded prisons.
Sen. Steve Lathrop said the prison overcrowding emergency won't disappear anytime soon and won't be solved by building a new prison.
Nebraska lawmakers will take up the divisive LB920 Wednesday evening. The criminal penalty bill influenced the budget debate and derailed a package of tax cuts. Here's what you need to