{"id":28542,"date":"2020-08-13T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28542"},"modified":"2020-08-13T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:07:10","slug":"earlier-parole-eligibility-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28542","title":{"rendered":"Earlier parole eligibility approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that seeks to address the overcrowding crisis in Nebraska\u2019s correctional system was passed by lawmakers Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24409\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24409\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542114504&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenLathrop_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Lathrop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Lathrop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24409\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Lathrop\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steve Lathrop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB1004, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Steve Lathrop, a committed offender automatically is eligible for parole within two years of their mandatory discharge date, unless they are eligible for parole at an earlier date.<\/p>\n<p>The director of the division of parole supervision will establish caseload standards for parole service and provide annual caseload reports to the Legislature beginning in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The parole provisions contained within LB1004 will not apply retroactively.<\/p>\n<p>The bill includes provisions of LB1036, originally introduced by Lincoln Sen. Adam Morfeld, that change the age of consent for health care decisions from 19 to 18. It also allows a person under 19 who is in the custody of the correctional system to consent to medical and mental health care decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed LB1004 on a 29-11 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that seeks to address the overcrowding crisis in Nebraska\u2019s correctional system was passed by lawmakers Aug. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-28542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-steve-lathrop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28544,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions\/28544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}