{"id":27451,"date":"2020-02-13T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=27451"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:57:35","slug":"reimbursement-proposed-for-city-and-county-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=27451","title":{"rendered":"Reimbursement proposed for city and county jails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local jails that take on additional juvenile inmates would be reimbursed for certain costs under a bill considered by the Judiciary Committee Feb. 12.<\/p>\n

\"Sen.
Sen. Dave Murman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LB978, sponsored by Glenvil Sen. Dave Murman, would reimburse city and county jails for the cost to house juveniles who have escaped from or committed crimes at certain state-operated juvenile facilities.<\/p>\n

Murman said the idea for the bill arose from several hearings about the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Centers in Kearney and Geneva.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a situation arises [where] an individual commits a crime such as an assault, and the safest place for them, their peers, administration and guards is to be in a secure jail setting, I understand that,\u201d he said \u201cI just believe that the city or county jail should be reimbursed for lodging by the Department of Correctional Services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facilities included in the bill\u2019s provisions are secure youth confinement facilities operated by the state Department of Correctional Services, YRTC-Kearney, YRTC-Geneva and any juvenile chemical dependency program or juvenile psychiatric residential treatment facility operated by the state Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

Dan Schleusener, representing the Buffalo County Sheriff\u2019s Office, testified in support of LB978. The standard reimbursement rate would be $89 per day, per inmate, plus the cost of any medical treatment, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Buffalo County is to continue housing youth from [YRTC-Kearney] that are the responsibility of the state for crimes committed at a youth facility, we\u2019d ask the county be reimbursed at a rate similar to what the state charges [to house county inmates],\u201d Schleusener said.<\/p>\n

No one testified in opposition to the bill and the committee took no immediate action on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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