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Corrections officials: 138 more full-time security officers needed to meet safety requirements
By omaha.com- Paul Hammel
Published: 08/26/2016

LINCOLN — State corrections officials say they need 138 additional full-time security officers to meet the safety requirements of state prisons, according to a draft of a much-anticipated analysis of staffing needs.

The draft report, obtained by The World-Herald on Thursday, says the increase in staffing would cost in the neighborhood of $11 million to $14 million a year. The report comes as an investigation continues into the latest attacks on corrections officers — attacks that many link with chronic shortages of manpower.

Nine staffers at the Lincoln Correctional Center were taken to a hospital Wednesday night after they were assaulted during a disturbance that occurred when at least a dozen prison inmates refused to return to their cells from a yard .

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