List of Nebraska state prisons
This is a list of state prisons in Nebraska. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of Nebraska.
- Community Corrections Center - Lincoln (operating capacity 400 inmates)
- Community Corrections Center - Omaha (capacity 180)
- Lincoln Correctional Center (capacity 500)
- Nebraska Correctional Center for Women
- Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility (capacity under 100)
- Nebraska Diagnostic and Evaluation Center
- Nebraska State Penitentiary
- Omaha Correctional Center (capacity 712)
- Tecumseh State Correctional Institution
- Work Ethic Camp (capacity 175)
Nebraska's Hastings Correctional Center was opened in 1987, served as a prison for the U.S. government U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2002 through 2005, then was subsequently closed.
The state of Nebraska does not have private prisons.[1] The state's Private Prison Contracting Act of 2001 spells out that any "private prison contractor shall not accept or house federal inmates or inmates from another state."[2]
References
- ^ Cody Mason (January 2012). "Too Good to be True: Private Prisons in America" (PDF). The Sentencing Project. p. 4.
- ^ Bruning, Jon; Melson, Lynn A. "Sale or Lease of the Hastings Correctional Center to a Private Contractor: Opinion 05008". Nebraska Attorney General's Office.