Team Member Spotlight:

Estela Finn serves a key role in NDCS as a translator. She provided much needed assistance to the state during the 2019 flooding and was honored this year for her “Excellence in Leadership” during COVID-19. Finn was instrumental in making sure the agency’s key messages were communicated to Spanish-speaking members of the incarcerated population. She has proven to be an invaluable resource to the department and to the state, lending her talents to situations that might otherwise require outside resources to address. Finn says the thing she likes most about her job is that it makes her feel useful...Read more

This week we are highlighting our NDCS Corrections Leadership Scholarship Program students. While studying criminal justice at Peru State College, these students are gaining valuable hands-on experience to become the corrections leaders of tomorrow.

NDCS Team Member Spotlight:

Myanmar, which was formerly known as Burma, is a southeastern Asian country and 8,056 miles of land and ocean separate it from Peru, Nebraska. Both places are home to a Corrections Leadership Scholarship Program student, Paw Wah.

Attending Peru State College, Wah was presented with a great opportunity to grow his passion for...Read more

This week we are highlighting our NDCS Corrections Leadership Scholarship Program students. While studying criminal justice at Peru State College, these students are gaining valuable hands-on experience to become the corrections leaders of tomorrow.

NDCS Team Member Spotlight:

Coming from a family of public servants, Gabriel Stolinski has always wanted to serve the public in some way.

Stolinski is a sophomore at Peru State College and is enrolled in the Corrections Leadership Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to Peru State criminal justice students who are completing a degree while working...Read more