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Nebraska County Corrections Officials Fired
Loaded on Dec. 2, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2015, page 55
Nebraska County Corrections Officials Fired
Hall County, Nebraska corrections director Fred Ruiz and assistant director Jimmy Vann were fired on August 20, 2015 after the county board met with special investigators hired to review management and operational concerns at the Hall County jail.
The investigation began after …
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