Sixty inmates lost good-time credit — on average six months of it — on allegations they were part of the riot at the state prison in Tecumseh last May, according to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services.
Together, they lost 401½ months of the reductions used to determine when an inmate is eligible for parole or done serving a sentence.
Put another way, that's more than 33 years extra in a prison system already dealing with overcrowding issues and, at the end of August, at 155 percent of capacity.
At the request of the Journal Star, Corrections staff provided a list of the number of inmates issued misconduct reports associated with the May 10 incident at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution, a general description of the charge and how much good time each inmate lost.
The prison declined to provide the names of the inmates.
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Jeffry Beaty, the director of planning, research and accreditation for Corrections, said individual discipline information is part of an inmate's confidential record and cannot be released without a court order.
Prison officials have said that more than 400 inmates were involved in the uprising, which started on a Sunday afternoon, lasted 11 hours, left two inmates dead and caused an estimated half-million dollars in damage.
A grand jury hasn't yet convened to review the deaths of Shon Collins and Donald Peacock, reportedly at the hands of fellow inmates.
Earlier this month, the Nebraska attorney general's office said the killings and the property crimes remain under investigation.
Of the 60 inmates who lost good time as a result of Disciplinary Committee hearings at the prison:
* Two lost two years and another lost one year of credit for assaults.
* 47 inmates lost six months each for "mutinous actions."
* Two lost time on multiple charges.
* Eight lost time for the destruction of property.
While the list didn't include inmates' names, it is all but sure to include the five men charged with felonies in Johnson County Court last week — three for assaults on guards, one for assaulting another inmate and one for threatening a staff member.
Prosecutors say Frederick Gooch, 29, punched an officer, and Roger Weikle, 59, kicked the officer in the head while on the yard during the start of the uprising, and that John Zalme, 69, hit a second officer in the head as he tried to restrain Weikle and Gooch.
Ian Yelton is accused of the first-degree assault of Cory Bewley, an inmate serving time on a murder charge.
And William T. Harris, 22, is accused of making terroristic threats against a corrections employee.
Yelton and Harris are set for court on Dec. 30. Hearings for Gooch, Weikle and Zalme are scheduled for Jan. 6.
Details about some of the other inmates' cases, which haven't resulted in criminal charges at this point, have come out in court cases in Lancaster and Johnson counties, where more than a dozen inmates have asked judges to review the lost time, asking for the decisions to be overturned.