Phone:
(402) 595-2000

The Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility (NCYF) came into existence in 1994 with Legislation Bill 988 which created the Office of Juvenile Services and established the requirement to plan for the construction of a Secure Youth Confinement Facility. Subsequently the facility was transferred to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. The NCYF received its first inmates in August 1998. (more)

Programs:

In addition to the Special Purpose High School courses, GED, and college classes, N.C.Y.F. offers programs in the following areas: Vocational Training: Landscaping/Horticulture, Food Service, Dog Handling. Mental health: Individual and Group Therapy, Cognitive Skills, Anger Management, and Parenting. Substance Abuse: Motivation to Change, Intesive Outpatient Group with Individual Therapy, and Relapse Prevention, Religion, Recreation, Life Skills, and Victim Impact. N.C.Y.F. relies on the use of a strong volunteer community contingency to provide additional programs such as guitar, keyboard lessons, bible study, gang prevention, and art lessons. Medical treatment for inmates is provided through 24-hour service in concert with the Omaha Correctional Center and local community hospitals.

Security Levels: Maximum, medium, and minimum

Visiting Hours for Approved Visitors:

General Population
Monday and Friday: 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Saturday: 8:30 am to 10:45 am and 12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Sunday: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Special Management Unit
1:00-3:00 pm, Monday

Safekeeper & 90-Day Evaluators
1:00-3:00 pm, Friday

Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility Visiting Procedures

Directions to the Facility:

• From I-80 Eastbound, take I-480 North towards Downtown
• (Follow the signs for Epply Airfield)
• Take the Cuming Street exit
• At the end of the exit, take a RIGHT onto Cuming Street
• STAY ON CUMING. Cuming Street will become Abbott Drive. Proceed north for approximately 2 miles.
• Once you see the Sleep Inn, make sure you are in the RIGHT hand lane and look for Budget Rent-a-Car, it will be on your right (or east side) at the corner of Abbott Drive and Locust Street.
• Turn right at the Budget Rent-a-Car corner. Proceed one block to North 20^th street (there is a sign for Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility)
• Turn right at the corner, NCYF is one block down on your right.

About the Nebraska Correction Youth Facility:

NCYF is a maximum-security facility house designed to inmates from early adolescence to age 21 years, 10 months. The building encompasses approximately 54,000 square feet with a construction cost of approximately $10.8 million. The Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility received its original accreditation by the American Correctional Association in May 2000, and undergoes reaccreditation every three years.

The construction and maintenance section of NCYF is established to insure the physical plant is maintained in good condition and make any alterations or additions necessary to operate a safe, clean, and efficient facility.

Support services includes food service, staff development, recreation, and record management. The food service department provides inmates with three meals daily, which are nutritionally designed to meet the needs of adolescent offenders. These meals are prepared under sanitary conditions with the assistance of inmates working in the food service department. All NCYF staff receive the required number of training hours per year as outlined in the ACA Standards. All inmate records are secured in the Records Manager's office and are managed in a confidential manner.

Custody and Unit Management are major operational areas within Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility with a focus on management, programming and discipline that protects staff, inmates and the public. Rules and regulations are in place, and inmates housed at the facility are expected to follow them. Violations of rules may result in disciplinary hearings. Disciplinary action from such hearings may mean a loss of certain privileges and/or reclassification to a higher custody level. Security management activities are the responsibility of all staff.

Per diem includes inmate wages, clothing, cleaning supplies, food and food supplies, household supplies, inmate transportation, and other inmate related institutional supplies.

Inmates may apply to participate in community custody programs of work release, work detail, or education release. The application is reviewed by the unit classification committee and by the institution's Warden.

Humane Education for At Risk Teens (H.E.A.R.T.)

Project H.E.A.R.T. is a joint effor with the Nebraska Humane Society to pair inmates with dogs for a mutually positive learning experience. Six dog handlers and three alternate handlers are chosen to participate in the 12-week program. Program qualifications for the inmates include having a High School Diploma or GED, successful completion of a Class 1 Misconduct Report during the previous six (6) months.

The 12-week program is supervised by a Humane Society trainer three days per week and by facility staff who supervise the daily and after-hours interactions. An outside kennel houses the dogs each night, with the dogs attending classes, and programming with the inmates during the day. Upon completion of the program, the dogs are either adopted (usually by staff or inmate families). To date, over 75 dogs have graduated from this highly successful program.

For more information regarding this facility, please contact Jim Sweredoski the Public Information Officer at (402) 595-2000.