Reception and Treatment Center
Taggart Boyd
Kory Johnson kory.johnson@nebraska.gov
3218 West Van Dorn Street
Click here for Intake Procedures
Directions to Facility
From I-80 W, take exit 397 for US-77 S toward Beatrice. Follow US-77 S/Homestead Expy as it turns into W Van Dorn St. Follow W Varn Dorn St. RTC will be on your right.
The Lincoln Correctional Center (LCC) and the Diagnostic & Evaluation Center have been joined to form one facility, now called the Reception and Treatment Center (RTC).
If you have questions, contact the facility directly.
Visitors will be subject to all RTC visiting procedures.
Chronic Care Mental Health Unit (CCMHU)
Designed for inmates diagnosed with a serious mental illness or significant developmental/organic disability who do not require Acute/Subacute care, and are not suited for the Mental Health Unit due to clinical or behavioral risk factors, need for assessment and/or crisis management.
Secure Mental Health Unit
The Secure Mental Health unit is used to house inmates diagnosed with a serious mental illness or significant developmental/organic disability who are not currently suited to be housed on the Mental Health Unit (MHU) due to clinical or behavioral risk factors. Inmates are located on unit C2. Programs include METEOR, introduction to mental illness, core process groups, impulse control and management, creative expressions, meditation and stress management, in addition to others.
Exploring Trauma
Participants explore the effects of trauma and how it has impacted their lives.
Needs addressed: Attitude/behavior
Living Skills
DVD series which addresses life skills that will help make the behavioral changes needed to transfer into general population.
Prison Fellowship Academy
This 12-month program operates in a mission-specific housing unit and focuses on cognitive restructuring with faith-based content.
Needs addressed; Attitudes, behavior
University of Nebraska Lincoln Ethnic Studies (credit course)
Higher level education exploring ethnic studies.
Need area addressed: Education, outside interest.
University of Nebraska Lincoln Intermediate Algebra (credit course)
Higher level education in the area of Algebra.
Needs addressed: Education, employment, outside interest.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Intro to Art (credit)
Higher level education.
Need addressed; Education, outside interest.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Intro to Psychology
Needs addressed: Education, outside interest.
Wesleyan College Course Math (non-credit)
College level math instruction.
Need addressed: education, outside interest, employment
Wesleyan College Course Positive Psychology (no-credit)
Provides college level instruction on psychology
Flexibility Yoga
High intensity, peer facilitated yoga workout intended to build strength, flexibility, and mental focus.
Need addressed: Pro-social and health
Harambee African Cultural Organization (HACO)
This self-betterment club provides an opportunity to explore the root of the African American culture and heritage, including the past, present and future.
Need addressed: Outside interest, pro-social activity
KORU Mindfulness Meditation
Focuses on self-awareness and relaxation techniques incorporating beginning yoga and deep breathing to help calm the body, mind, spirit.
Needs addressed: Attitudes/behavior.
Gang intervention/desistance program
Need addressed: Attitudes/behavior, pro-social activity.
MATA Club (Mexican Awareness Through Association)
Participants in this club learn about the religious, cultural aspects, arts, customs, crafts, language, and the heritage of the Hispanic people.
Needs addressed: Outside interest and support.
Native Americans Spiritual and Cultural Awareness Group (NASCA)
NASCA is designed to help Native Americans express their uniqueness of cultural and spiritual practices. Participants are given the chance to learn how to sing, pray and dance from a Native perspective.
Needs address: Pro-social/outside interest and support.
Gang intervention and desistance program.
Needs addressed: Attitudes/Behavior, Aggression, friends
Psychology of Incarceration
Peer facilitated program which explores the seven criminogenic need domains as they relate to self-imposed limitations, one's thoughts, values, feelings and choices.
Standing Together on Purpose (S.T.O.P.)
Standing Together on Purpose ( S.T.O.P.) is a multi-cultural club that teaches about the heritage and legacy of American people. S.T.O.P. aims to further promote the cultural construction of stable bridges for effective communication between all people.
Needs addressed: Pro-social; outside interest.
Offers participants therapeutic skills through writing.
Need addressed: Outside Interest
Reconnect KEYS (Keep Educating Yourself For Reentry Success
The program is designed to build confidence and accountability, resiliency, problem solving skills for reentry success and personal growth.
Need area addressed: employment, reentry
Brothers in Blue
Faith based life skills program provided in the form of a four day retreat and once a month check-ins.
Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Routing Operator Apprenticeship
Instruction and training to set up, operate, and tend a computer controlled wood routing machine.
Goals , Plans, and Strategies for Reentry and Life Success (GPS)
Two learning modules to develop reentry and life skills
Addresses: life skills
Offset Press Operator Apprenticeship
Training in how to operate and offset printer in the Print Shop.
Need addressed: Employment.
Opening Doors CAD (Computer Aided Drafting and Blueprint)
Teaches CAD software to increase productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation and to create a database of manufacturing.
Opening Doors Core Class
The TRADE Program teaches conflict resolution; critical thinking; communication; personal finance; healthy relationships; basic computer; job preparation.
Needs Addressed: Life skills; employment.
Print and Bindery Apprenticeship
Instruction and training in the binding of books and other publications, finishing products by hand or machine. Operate binding and finishing machines.
Reconnect: Success Prep
Helps participants examine behaviors and attitudes that may have contributed to their incarceration and focus on skills critical to reentry.
Needs addressed: Attitudes, behavior, life skills.
Workforce Readiness
Assists participants to prepare for returning to work and building career readiness.
Agency EPIC Meeting
Each NDCS prison holds regular meetings of their Employee Positive Impact Council (EPIC). Today, Director Frakes held an agency-level meeting with representatives from each facility in attendance. The group engaged in dialogue on subjects such as communication, employee engagement and improving interactions with the incarcerated men and women.Read more
Director Frakes Appoints New Warden
November 9, 2017 (LINCOLN) – Today, Director Scott R. Frakes announced the appointment of Taggart Boyd to serve as warden of the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center/Lincoln Correctional Center (DEC/LCC). Boyd will join the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) on December 29, 2017.
Boyd currently serves as the deputy warden of operations at the privately operated North Central Correctional Complex, a minimum-medium security men's prison in Marion, Ohio....Read more
Inmate Deaths at Nebraska State Penitentiary and Diagnostic and Evaluation Center
February 23, 2017 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Harold Nokes (88) inmate #29217 and Gary Pope (68) inmate #33644 died on February 22, 2017.
Harold Nokes died at 9:18 p.m. at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. He was serving a life sentence for 1st degree murder from Red Willow County. His sentence began on March 22, 1974.
Gary Pope died at 9:55 p.m. at the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center. He was serving a life sentence for 1st degree murder from Saunders County. His...Read more
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