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Oct. 22, 2019Lincoln, NE | By: AP
Nebraska is changing the way it handles juvenile offenders
following an incident in which teenage girls damaged a state-run housing unit in
Geneva.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services on Monday unveiled a new
Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center System, with campuses in Kearney,
Geneva and Lincoln.
Nebraska already has a boys' facility in Kearney and a girls' facility in
Geneva. The new approach would turn Kearney's campus into an intake and
classification facility, while Geneva's facility would be used for girls who are
preparing to return to society.
The Lincoln facility would provide more intensive programming for male and
female youths who aren't responding to treatment in Kearney.
State officials moved girls out of the Geneva facility in August after
residents caused extensive damage.
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