List of Nebraska state prisons explained

This is a list of state prisons in Nebraska. There are no federal prisons in Nebraska and this list does not include county jails located in Nebraska.

• Community Corrections Center - Lincoln (operating capacity 680 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]

External links

• Nebraska Department of Correctional Services

Notes and References

1. Web site: Too Good to be True: Private Prisons in America . Cody Mason . January 2012 . The Sentencing Project . 4.
2. Web site: Sale or Lease of the Hastings Correctional Center to a Private Contractor: Opinion 05008 . Jon . Bruning . Lynn A. . Melson . Nebraska Attorney General's Office . 2014-02-05 . https://archive.today/20140205055807/http://www.ago.ne.gov/ag_opinion_view?oid=4083 . 2014-02-05 . dead .