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Article: State prison population declines 2%.
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- Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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Byline: Leslie Reed
Oct. 2--LINCOLN -- Bucking a decades-long upward trend, Nebraska's prison population dropped 2 percent in fiscal 2007 compared with the previous year.
State corrections officials said new community corrections programs, more paroles and better management techniques may be starting to whittle away at the prison population.
But, they cautioned, it is too soon to say whether this year's dip means a long-term turnaround of a trend that began in the early 1980s, when state and federal sentencing laws were increased to get "tough on crime" and to declare a "war on drugs."
The state's prison population reached 4,447 ...