06-23-2019 Sun TSCI

This week I received some very useful information. NE Corrections has 2 types of good time, the standard day-for-day good time that is automatically credited when you arrive but you can loose it, and 191 good time, which you have to earn by going without major...

06/16/2019 Sun TSCI

This week I received a response to my letter to the LCC warden. I had written because I have been approved for transfer to LCC since Oct. ’18 and I need to get there to take the iHelp program in order to be parole eligible. The only important information was in...

Letter to Senators 06-03-2019

Dear Senators, I have just watched the general file debate on LB 686 on prison reform and I was happy to see that the legislature is moving forward on some attempts to address the crisis in NE’s prisons. As positive as LB 686 is, it is still dwarfed by the...

Letter to Senators 06-03-2019

Dear Senator, As a member of the Judiciary committee and being responsible for oversight of the Neb. Dept. of Correctional Services I wanted to bring 2 issues to your attention. First, NDCS is miscalculating their overcrowding, concealing the true severity of the...

Reply to “Letter to Senators 02-14-2019”

Dear Mr. Heist: Thank you for your recent emails to me and others. I have actually had some people contact me and ask questions about some of the points you raised. I agree that it would seem that you can only address overcrowding two ways, or a combination of the two...