A new document released by the Office of Inspector General of Corrections says key health care positions in the Nebraska prison system are seeing anywhere from a 17% to 100% vacancy rate.
“I think we’re at a tipping point right now,” one prison employee said in a recent survey. “If we lost one more psychologist, things would really start to go downhill.”
Grappling with nation-leading prison growth, Nebraska officials are looking at ways to expand the state s problem-solving courts as a potential solution.