HHS OFFICIALS ASK JUDGES TO PAUSE ADDING JUVENILE OFFENDERS TO TROUBLED KEARNEY YOUTH FACILITY

LINCOLN — State officials are asking judges to temporarily stop sending juvenile offenders to the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center-Kearney, saying the troubled facility is at the “maximum safe census.”

Bo Botelho, chief operating officer and general counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services, made the request in a letter sent to judges on Tuesday.

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