Nebraska Department of Correctional Services

Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
Abbreviation	NDCS
Patch of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
Agency overview
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction*	State of Nebraska, USA
Map of Nebraska Department of Correctional Services's jurisdiction.
Size	77,421 square miles (200,520 km2)
Population	1,783,432 (2008 est.).)
General nature	Law enforcement Civilian agency
Operational structure
Headquarters	Building #1 Lincoln Regional Center Lincoln, Nebraska
Agency executive	Scott R. Frakes, Director
Facilities
Correctional Facilities	11
Website
NDCS Website
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) is the state corrections agency for the State of Nebraska. NDCS currently has 10 institutions confining over 4,000 inmates. All male inmates coming into the system enter through the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center where they are evaluated and assigned to other facilities. All female inmates are housed at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women. The agency's headquarters is in Building #1 in the Lincoln Regional Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Nebraska is one of nine states nationwide having all adult facilities accredited through the American Correctional Association.

List of Nebraska state prisons

Previously the department operated juvenile correctional facilities, including the Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Kearney (YRTC-K) in Kearney, a juvenile correctional facility for boys, and the Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Geneva (YRTC-G) in unincorporated Fillmore County, near Geneva, for girls. After 23 years of operation from the Department of Correctional Services; on January 1, 1997, the youth correctional facilities were transferred out of the scope of the department; the facilities are now managed by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

Since the establishment of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, 6 officers have died in the line of duty.

All executions in Nebraska since 1903 have taken place within the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Prior to 1903, executions were handled in the county where the offense took place. From 1903 to 1913, the means of execution was by hanging. Since 1913, it has been by the electric chair. A total of 8 inmates were executed by hanging and 15 inmates by means of the electric chair. (23 Total) There have been approximately 68 inmates housed on death row from 1903 to the present.