Nebraska prisons have stopped letting higher-security inmates leave their confines for temporary, guarded outings to attend funerals or visit critically ill family members.Prisons director Bob Houston informed inmates in a memo.
He says safety concerns for unarmed corrections officers led to the change.
Houston says more people are dying at home, and he says the emotional scenes present a lot of unknown for prison guards.
According to the Lincoln Journal Star, Houston says prison guards are corrections officers, not law enforcement.
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