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| Editorial, 1/12: Implement changes in corrections |
| By journalstar.com |
| Published: 01/13/2014 |
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The state Ombudsman’s Office released a disturbing report last week examining the case of Nikko Jenkins, a former inmate accused of killing four people within three weeks of being released from prison. The report’s conclusion: Nebraska Department of Corrections officials were “grievously wrong” to have failed to provide mental health services to Jenkins, who confessed to the Omaha slayings saying voices and commands from an Egyptian god told him to kill them. Jenkins didn’t receive mental health services during his decade in prison because he was kept in segregation, considered a danger to other inmates and staff. That, the ombudsman wrote, was wrong -- for both Jenkins and the public. "Our corrections administrators have a responsibility not just to make their institutions safer, but to make our streets safer as well,” the report states. “And this means that they have a duty to see to it that the inmates assigned to segregation, who are often our most seriously troubled and dangerous individuals, are not thereby isolated from the programming and mental health treatment that might make them into better citizens on the outside … in our communities and our neighborhoods.” Read More. |
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