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| Special housing unit in Douglas County Jail offers support system for imprisoned veterans |
| By omaha.com- Christopher Burbach |
| Published: 03/03/2016 |
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Deep inside the Douglas County Jail, bugle music rouses a group of men each day as the sun rises and all the other inmates continue to sleep. The recorded reveille strikes a familiar and common chord in this group of 25 to 30 men. They’re all military veterans. They’ve all chosen to do their jail time in the Douglas County Department of Corrections’ new veterans housing unit, believed to be first of its kind in Nebraska and one of about a dozen in county jails nationwide. The men rise from their low-slung beds. After minimal morning ministrations, they file past a U.S. flag, out the door unlocked by a corrections officer and down the hall to a small gym. One of the men leads them through a brief but rigorous series of exercises, or P.T. in military parlance. They file back to their unit. The guard locks the door. The men assemble in their eating and meeting area. They arrange themselves to face the flag, standing with hands over hearts, and they recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Read More. |
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