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Nebraska Prison Sentences Being Reviewed

By Associated Press

06/18/2015

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska's corrections department is reviewing 2,000 prisoner sentences for accuracy after discovering that some inmates received credit they shouldn't have.

Director Scott Frakes said Wednesday that the review could add as much as four months onto an inmate's sentence, which could exacerbate prison crowding.

Frakes says the problem was discovered earlier this month while department officials were upgrading their process for calculating inmate sentences. The department was heavily criticized after previous administrators acknowledged that they ignored a Supreme Court ruling that outlined the correct way to calculate sentences.

Frakes says the newest problem wasn't caused by bad legal advice, but staffers believed they were calculating sentences properly based on their understanding of a 2011 law.

The review is expected to be completed by the end of July.

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