NDCS News Releases

NDCS News Releases

Director Scott R. Frakes

NDCS team members assume new roles with national organization

March 9, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-35)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

March 9, 2021 (Lincoln, Neb) – Five team members with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) have assumed leadership and member roles in the American Correctional Association (ACA), a national organization that oversees the accreditation of prisons, jails and other detention facilities.

Director Scott R. Frakes was appointed to serve on the Response to Disruptive Behavior Committee, a group that works to identify best practices for managing high risk...Read more

NDCS staff members positive for COVID-19

March 8, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-34)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

March 8, 2021 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced that four staff members with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) are positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The staff members are employed at the Lincoln Correctional Center (2), Community Corrections Center-Lincoln (1) and the Omaha Correctional Center (1). All four staff members are self-isolating at home.

Notification will be provided to those who live and work in those...Read more

Missing CCC-L inmate arrested

March 5, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-33)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

March 5, 2021 (Lincoln, Neb.) – An inmate who left the Community Corrections Center – Lincoln on May 1, 2020 has been arrested by the Douglas County Sheriff’s office. Deputies took Allen Webster #210752 into custody March 4, 2021.

Webster began serving a two-year sentence on December 5, 2019 for possession of a controlled substance out of Douglas County. He had a tentative release date of July 11, 2020.

CCC-L is one of two community custody facilities operated by...Read more

Inmate missing from community correctional facility

March 4, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-32)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

March 4, 2021 (Lincoln, Neb.) -- Authorities have been notified about an inmate missing from the Community Corrections Center-Lincoln (CCC-L). Amanda Samaroo #99723 left the facility this morning to seek employment through a job service in downtown Lincoln. Shortly after 1:00 p.m., a tamper alarm went off on the electronic monitoring device she was wearing. When staff arrived at the employment service, they were told she had left. Samaroo did not return to the facility.

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Missing CCC-O inmate arrested

March 3, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-31)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

March 3, 2021 (Omaha, Neb.) – An inmate who left the Community Corrections Center – Omaha on November 19, 2020 was arrested last night by the Omaha Police Department. Officers took Kabir Haywood #210807 into custody around 8:00 p.m. near Fontenelle and Camden Avenue. He was booked into the Douglas County jail on a charge of escape.

Haywood started serving his sentence on December 16, 2019. He is serving three to five years for charges out of Douglas County that include...Read more

NDCS staff members positive for COVID-19

March 1, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-30)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

March 1, 2021 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced that three staff members with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) are positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The staff members are employed at the Lincoln Correctional Center (LCC), Community Corrections Center-Lincoln (CCC-L) and the Central Office. All staff members are self-isolating at home.

Notification will be provided to those who live and work in those locations as to...Read more

NCCW inmate death

February 26, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-29)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

February 26, 2021 (York, Neb.) – Niccole Wetherell #94369, age 40, died this morning at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women (NCCW). Her sentence started June 28, 1999. Wetherell was serving a life sentence for first degree murder out of Sarpy County.

While the cause of death has yet to be determined, Wetherell was being treated for a medical condition. As is the case whenever an inmate dies in the custody of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS),...Read more

NDCS employee arrested

February 25, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (21-28)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

OFFICE 402-479-5713 | laura.strimple@nebraska.gov

February 25, 2021 (McCook, Neb.) – Kerstan Slater, (29), a unit caseworker at the Work Ethic Camp (WEC) in McCook, was arrested today by the Nebraska State Patrol for unauthorized communication with a prisoner (Neb. Rev. Stat. §83-417).

Slater has been employed by the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) since October 15, 2018. She has only worked at WEC during that time. Slater resigned her position with the agency.

NDCS Director Scott R. Frakes...Read more

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