NDCS News Releases

NDCS News Releases

NDCS staff member positive for COVID-19

October 5, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-175)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

October 5, 2020 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced that a staff member with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) is positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The staff member is employed at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP). That person is self-isolating at home.

Notification will be provided to those who live and work in that facility as to the positive case. In addition, anyone who may have had close contact with the staff...Read more

NDCS staff member positive for COVID-19

October 4, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-174)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

October 4, 2020 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced that a staff member with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) is positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The staff member is employed at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP). That person is self-isolating at home.

Notification will be provided to those who live and work in that facility as to the positive case. In addition, anyone who may have had close contact with the staff...Read more

NDCS staff members positive for COVID-19

October 2, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-173)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

October 2, 2020 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced that two staff members with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) are positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). One staff member is employed at the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center (DEC). The second staff member is employed at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP). Both staff members are self-isolating at home.

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

Inmate missing from community correctional facility

October 2, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-172)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

October 2, 2020 (Lincoln, Neb.) -- Authorities have been notified about an inmate who walked away from the Community Corrections Center-Lincoln (CCC-L) shortly after 6:00 p.m. tonight. Bailey Scruggs #86344 left after taking out the garbage, one of his assigned duties at the facility. He removed the electronic monitoring device he was wearing, which was found nearby.

Scruggs started serving his sentence on September 6, 2017. He is serving five to eight years on charges...Read more

NDCS employee arrested

October 2, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-171)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

October 2, 2020 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Tonya Hendricks (52), a corporal at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP), was arrested by the Nebraska State Patrol on October 1, 2020 for unauthorized communication with a prisoner (Neb. Rev. Stat. 83-417).

She has been employed by NDCS since December 2019 and has only worked at NSP. Hendricks has been placed on suspension and was booked into the Lancaster County jail.

Unauthorized communication with a prisoner is a Class IV...Read more

NDCS staff member positive for COVID-19

October 1, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-170)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

October 1, 2020 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced that a staff member with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) is positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The staff member is employed at the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center (DEC). That person is self-isolating at home.

Notification will be provided to those who live and work in that facility as to the positive case. In addition, anyone who may have had close contact with the...Read more

NDCS staff members positive for COVID-19

September 30, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-169)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

September 30, 2020 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced that five staff members with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) are positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). Three are employed at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP). One is employed at the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center (DEC) and another works at the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility (NCYF). All five staff members are self-isolating at home.

Notification will be...Read more

NDCS staff members positive for COVID-19

September 28, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (20-168)

CONTACT Laura Strimple, Chief of Staff

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

September 28, 2020 (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). They are employed at the Lincoln Correctional Center (LCC), Diagnostic and Evaluation Center (DEC), Tecumseh State Correctional Institution (TSCI) and the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP). All the staff members are self-isolating at home.

Notification will be...Read more

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