New detention center opened
■ The $11.6 million
facility will provide more
room, security.
By MicheUe Starr
Staff writer
Officials hope Tuesday’s ground
breaking ceremony of a new juvenile
detention center is a step toward allevi
ating overcrowding and increasing
care, placement and security of youths
within the county correctional institu
tion.
The 11 a.m. ceremony celebrated
two years of planning that went into the
center, said Annette Thompson,
Juvenile Detention Coordinator at the
Attention Center for Youth.
Festivities were held at the City
County Building at 555 S. 10th St and
were sponsored by the Lancaster
County Board of Commissions.
“The greatest benefit (of the facili
ty) would be die ability to detain juve
niles from a broad classification of
offenses,” Attention Center Director
Dennis Banks said.
Along with holding various offend
ers, the 60,000-square-foot facility at
1200 Radcliff Road, southwest of 14th
Street and Highway 2, will have enough
room to separate die youths according
to sex, age and charge, Banks said.
The current facilities, at 2220 S.
10th St., and die Air Park Facility, at
4520 W. Stanton St., didn’t have
enough room for segregation.
Banks said without segregation, the
older juveniles could negatively affect
younger juveniles, and serious offend
ers could pose a threat to less-serious
offenders.
The threats created by overcrowd
ing led to restricted activities and
increased time isolated from others,
Thompson said.
The $11.6 million center will also
have a new assessment center that will
enable improved placement of juve
niles to better suit their needs, Banks
said.
The center will also provide 60
secure beds, which would have restrict
ed access, and 20 staff secure beds. The
design, by Sinclair Hille and
Associates, offers the ability to add 20
beds without compromising security or
quality of service, Thompson said.
Eventually, youths horn both facili
ties will be moved to the new center, but
a specific date has not been set, Banks
said
The new county juvenile facility is
one of many initiatives the city, county
and state are taking to improve the juve
nile correctional system.
Though state plans differ from city
county plans, each effort is a step in
improving the system, said Jeanne
Atkinson, public information officer
for die Nebraska Health and Human
Services System.
For the state, Gov. Mike Johanns
proposed a review of juvenile offender
placement within the system, recom
mended legislative appropriations for a
juvenile justice wilderness camp in
Fullerton and recommended construc
tion of a new parole revocation facility.
“(The county facility is) part of the
puzzle, but it’s not our part,” Atkinson
said
Both the city-county and state used
facility assessment and improvement
suggestions from Chinn Planning Inc.,
a company based out of South
Carolina.
Completion for the facility is pro
jected for October 2001, but the center
will officially take possession of the
building from Cheever Construction
Company Inc. in January 2002, Banks
said.
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Father arrested
for felony child abuse
A Lincoln man was arrested for
felony child abuse on Tuesday. Police
said he injured his 3-month-old
daughter.
Police arrested Robert Nelson, 23,
1340 Plum St. Apt. 3, Tuesday at 3
p.m., Lincoln Police Ofc. Katherine
Finnell said.
The case began on Jan. 14 after
physicians at BryanLGH West
Medical Center determined the child
had a spiral fracture to her left femur.
Further X-rays revealed previous
injuries, including two fractured ribs
and a broken collarbone, Finnell said.
Court reports said Nelson told
police that on Jan. 14 he was burping
the infant and heard her leg pop.
He said the infant was in his care,
but he did not do anything intentional
ly to injure his daughter, the report
said.
Nelson also told police he might
be a little rough with his children but
didn’t think he had done anything that
would injure them, reports said.
Nelson is being held in jail while
awaiting arraignment.
Teen robbed in restroom
at Lincoln Northeast
A student trying to relieve himself
became the victim of a faceless crime
on Tuesday.
A 15-year-old Lincoln Northeast
High School student was in the men’s
restroom at 1:20 p.m. when money
was taken out of his wallet, Finnell
said
The student, while using the sec
ond floor boys’ restroom facilities,
removed his wallet from his back
pants pocket and set the wallet down,
Finnell said
An unidentified man came up
behind the student, grabbed the wallet
and told the student not to turn around,
Finnell said
After the suspect had taken about
$20 from the wallet, he threw it down
and left the restroom.
The student then waited in the
restroom for five to 10 minutes
because he was scared, Finnell said
The victim told police there were
two other people with the man who
took die money.
Police talk man off roof
Police successfully convinced a
distraught man to abandon ideas of
jumping off of a parking garage roof
Wednesday evening, said Lincoln
Police Capt. David Beggs.
Around 9 p.m., a man on top of
University Square Parking, 101 N.
14th St., was threatening to jump,
Beggs said.
Officers got the man off of the
roof without injury.
The man, whose name was not
released, will be undergoing psy
chological evaluation, Beggs said.
Compiled by staff writer
Michelle Starr
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