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This is a list of state prisons in Nevada operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections. The only federal prison in Nevada is Federal Prison Camp, Nellis, closed in 2005. This list does not include county jails located in the state of Nevada.
The facility was opened in 1989 and occupies 76 acres (31 ha) in Muskegon. It is one of two facilities for male prisoners in Muskegon. The facility has six housing units used for Michigan Department of Corrections male prisoners 18 years of age and older. One housing unit holds up to 120 Level I prisoners.
Prior to 2016, prisoners facing capital punishment were held at Ely State Prison and were sent to Nevada State Prison's execution chamber to be executed. [6] In 2016, a new execution chamber was opened at Ely and the chamber at the Nevada State Prison was closed. [14] This prison became the state-designated facility for all hangings in 1903.
The three-digit number is unique to each individual county within a state, but to be unique within the entire United States, it must be prefixed by the state code. This means that, for example, while Churchill County, Nevada is 001, Alameda County, California and Baker County, Oregon are also 001. To uniquely identify Churchill County, Nevada ...
In the 2006 Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room, the protagonist visits the prison in search of his missing daughter. In the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas , one of the locations in-game is a prison called the "NCR Correctional Facility" located in the same geographical location in Jean, Nevada, which is based on the Southern Nevada ...
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The capacity is 2149 inmates. Most are medium security. This facility should not be confused with the Southern Nevada Correctional Center, a state facility at Jean that closed in 2008, or the Nevada Southern Detention Center, a private prison at Pahrump run by Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the United States Marshals ...