Each May, the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP) Employee Activities Committee (EAC) celebrates Correctional Officer and Teammate Appreciation Month in various ways, including hosting a BBQ, and providing pizza and popcorn. Although COVID-19 has impacted the ability to participate in some of these activities, that hasn’t stopped the NSP EAC team from recognizing their team members in other COVID-19 friendly ways! Each week in May, the EAC will be distributing snacks to NSP team members and recognizing a NSP team member as the Employee of the Week. This week, EAC members handed out Starbursts to each NSP team member. On each...Read more

Sometimes a person’s career path can be a simple and straight path forward. Other times, the road winds back and forth before a person finds out where they feel they are meant to be. During Correctional Officer and Teammate Appreciation Month, many teammates take a moment to remember their own paths that led them to work in corrections. For Tecumseh State Correctional Institution (TSCI) Accounting Clerk Annie Othmer, she was ready for a dependable job. “Honestly, I never thought I would work here. But raising a two-year-old on a $9 per hour job was not cutting it. I started looking for something with better benefits and kept on...Read more