The new juvenile detention center in downtown Omaha features comfortable rooms, common spaces with flat-screen TVs and orderly classrooms.
The Douglas County Youth and Family Support Center in downtown Omaha, a $27 million facility, was completed a year ago, but the building remains empty.
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The Douglas County Youth Center in central Omaha houses juvenile detainees in the county.
The residential units in the new Douglas County Youth and Family Support Center feature a spacious common area, a flat-screen TV and a small recreation area with a basketball hoop.
The gym at the new Douglas County Youth and Family Support Center features a basketball court with several hoops.
The new Douglas County Youth and Family Support Center has a rooftop recreation area with a patch of turf in the middle. The area could eventually include ping-pong tables and cornhole sets if kids arrive at the facility.
Douglas County Board Members Roger Garcia, right, and Chris Rodgers meet with a juvenile justice panel at the Omaha-Douglas Civic Center on July 10.
What you missed last week in notable Omaha crimes and court cases
Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
The Omaha Police Department is searching for three juveniles after the juveniles allegedly stole fireworks from a tent located in South Omaha early Thursday morning.
Omaha police are searching for two men who robbed a bank Wednesday morning near 90th and Maple Streets before fleeing in a SUV.
A 40-year-old Omaha man who sent sexually explicit pictures of a minor to an FBI agent was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
A Lincoln man accused of raping a woman as she was taking a morning walk near downtown Omaha last month appeared in court for the first time Tuesday and was ordered held on $750,000 bail.
In a press release issued Tuesday ahead of a grand jury investigation into the killings of two men by off-duty Omaha police officers earlier this year, police said the slain men were directly connected to narcotics trafficking.
The Nebraska State Patrol said a patient escaped from the Lincoln Regional Center early Tuesday.
An Omaha woman displayed erratic behavior, including chasing a man around her house with a taser, before she fatally stabbed a teen girl with a kitchen knife earlier this year, a detective testified on Monday.
A 23-year-old told police that he was shot during an attempted robbery early Monday in northwest Omaha.
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