Nebraska Correctional Center for Women Lookup

NCCW State Prison Overview

The Nebraska Correctional Center for Women facility page identifies NCCW as the state's only secure correctional facility for adult women. It is operated by the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, usually shortened to NDCS. The facility sits in York County, but it is not run by York County Corrections, the York County Sheriff's Department, or the county court system.

NCCW houses maximum, medium, and minimum custody adult women in state custody. It also houses court-ordered evaluators and county safekeepers. NDCS describes NCCW as the diagnostic and evaluation center for all newly committed female inmates. That means newly sentenced women entering Nebraska prison custody may begin there for orientation, assessment, medical and mental-health evaluations, and a classification plan before long-term placement or programming decisions are made.

The facility's history is distinct from the York County jail. NCCW began in May 1920 after the Nebraska Legislature established the State Reformatory for Women. Older dormitory buildings from the 1920s remain in use as program areas. NDCS reports major construction phases in 2004 and 2009, including general population, treatment, segregation, special needs, food service, laundry, administrative, medical, and education spaces. NCCW has been accredited by the American Correctional Association since 1981.

The screenshot matched to this facility comes from the official NDCS NCCW page, which shows the state prison address, phone, capacity, history, custody levels, and facility profile.

Use the NDCS facility page for prison-specific context, then use the NDCS incarceration-record search for individual custody records.

NCCW Capacity and Custody

NDCS lists Nebraska Correctional Center for Women as a 275-bed facility. The research inventory also found a Prison Policy Initiative 2020 correctional population table that listed 250 state prisoners for NCCW from a 2012 survey date. The current page capacity is the stronger facility fact for a current NCCW profile, while the PPI figure is best treated as a historical dataset value rather than a live count.

NCCW Inmate Locator

Use the NDCS incarceration-record search to find a person at Nebraska Correctional Center for Women. This locator covers Nebraska state prison custody. It is not a county jail roster and does not show York County booking numbers, local bond, local arresting agency, or county jail mugshots. Those are county booking details, and they belong to the York County jail side when a person is still in local custody.

The NDCS locator can be searched by last name or DCS ID number. First name is optional. The form also uses hCaptcha, and the NDCS system links to official spreadsheet downloads for active and all incarceration records. The active spreadsheet fields include ID number, committed and legal names, date of birth, race, gender, facility, sentence begin date, sentence term fields, parole eligibility date, earliest possible release date, current status, and release information.

1. Open the NDCS incarceration-record search.
2. Enter a last name, or use the DCS ID number if known.
3. Add first name only if it helps narrow a common name.
4. Complete the hCaptcha and submit the search.
5. Confirm the facility field says Nebraska Correctional Center for Women or another NDCS facility.

NCCW Address and Contact

Contact Nebraska Correctional Center for Women for facility-specific questions about approved visits, mail routing, state prison custody, and prison procedures. Court video requests use the dedicated NDCS email listed in the research file, while ordinary custody lookup starts with the NDCS public locator. Do not call the York County jail expecting county staff to confirm the details of a state prison sentence record.

NCCW Visiting Rules

NCCW visitation is a state prison process. Visitors must be approved, and a person who wants to be added to the visiting list generally needs the incarcerated person to send a Visitation Request Form. NDCS separates in-person and virtual visit requests, and the official form asks for the inmate name and NDCS ID, visitor contact information, adult and minor visitor counts, and schedule preferences. In-person visitors should arrive at least 30 minutes early.

The NCCW visitation page lists facility-specific schedules and form fields. Virtual visitors age 16 or older must present proper identification. Minors under 16 must have a birth certificate on file, and minors under 19 must be accompanied by an authorized guardian. Sharing virtual visit links or including unapproved people can end or suspend privileges.

The official visitation form is shown in the local image set from the NDCS NCCW visitation page, including the fields used to request in-person or virtual visits.

Because schedules and eligibility can change by population group, the NDCS visit page and facility confirmation should control before travel.

NCCW Mail and Money

NDCS mail and money rules differ from York County jail rules. Personal mail is digitally delivered through the tablet Facility Messages app and uses a Phoenix, Maryland mail-processing address. Funds, publications, and packages for NCCW use the prison's York address and must include the incarcerated person's name and ID number. The NDCS mail and money page also identifies GTL, ViaPath, and GettingOut services for money transfers, photos, emails, e-cards, and video grams.

NCCW Intake and Classification

Intake at NCCW is not the same as booking into the York County jail after an arrest. A county jail booking is tied to arrest, local bond, first appearance, and local charges. NCCW intake is a state prison receiving and classification process. NDCS says newly committed female inmates spend the first 30 days in an orientation program that is segregated from general population. During that period, medical and mental-health evaluations occur, and staff provide information about available programming.

Each inmate receives a classification and programming plan. Classification means the state prison system reviews custody level, needs, risks, health factors, sentence information, and programming options. Visiting during the 30-day orientation period is limited to one visit by immediate family members only. That limit is another reason to confirm the person's classification and current visiting status through NDCS before making plans.

NDCS

Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, the state prison agency.

DCS ID

The state prison identification number used in the NDCS locator.

Orientation

The early receiving period for newly committed female inmates at NCCW.

County safekeeper

A county-held person placed in state custody for safekeeping reasons.

York Jail vs NCCW

York County has both a local jail and a state prison within the county, which makes lookup mistakes common. York County Corrections Facility is for local jail custody, including people arrested by local or state law-enforcement agencies, people awaiting trial, short local sentences, and holds. Nebraska Correctional Center for Women is for state prison custody, diagnostic orientation, state-sentenced adult women, evaluators, and safekeepers.

NEVCAP, Nebraska's victim notification portal, can also help with custody and release notifications. It supports offender ID and booking ID searches, but it does not replace the official NDCS locator for state prison records. Federal BOP and ICE locators are separate systems and should be used only when the person is in federal sentence custody or immigration detention, not for routine NCCW state-prison records.

About Nebraska Correctional Center

NCCW's role reaches beyond York County because it is the only secure state prison for adult women in Nebraska. It also has a long institutional history, from the original reformatory period to modern NDCS operations. The official facility page's recent news feed includes education, graduation, gardening, and corrections class items. Those are program and facility-life details, not live custody counts.

For public records beyond the locator, NDCS provides a public-records request channel and points requesters to Nebraska public records statutes and existing databases. State prison records should be requested from NDCS when the record is a state sentence, state facility placement, state release field, or prison program record. York County records request paths are for county jail and sheriff records, not NCCW sentence files.