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Nebraska Corrections Department welcomes new program to reduce recidivism, lift spirits in troubled prison system
By omaha.com- Joe Duggan
Published: 09/30/2016

LINCOLN — The scene felt like a corporate seminar aimed at pumping up the sales force to set quarterly records.

Spontaneous cheers and applause echoed off the cinder-block walls of the prison gymnasium. Participants exchanged high fives, handshakes and smiles. There was lots of laughter and even a little dancing as James Brown screamed “I Feel Good” on the loudspeaker.

It made what took place Thursday within the walls of the Nebraska State Penitentiary seem just a little surreal.

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