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The 1,576,000 sq ft (146,400 m 2) complex lies approximately 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Las Vegas along highway 95. [1] It was designed as the most secure prison within the Nevada Department of Corrections system. High Desert State Prison contains 12 housing units designed to house 336 inmates each.
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.
State of Nevada Correction Officers (C/O's) are fully sworn Peace Officers per 18 U.S.C 926(b) Qualified Law Enforcement Officers and are recognized under the Nevada Revised Statutes(NRS's). Correctional cadets undergo a hiring process through the department's personnel unit in Carson City, Las Vegas and Ely, Nevada.
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Andriza Mircovich was the first and only inmate in Nevada to be executed by shooting. On May 14, 1913, Andriza Mircovich became the first and only inmate in Nevada to be executed by shooting. [17] After warden George W. Cowing was unable to find five men to form a firing squad, [18] a shooting machine was built to carry out Mircovich's execution.
The deadly melee broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the Ely State Prison in a rural mining town some 250 miles (400 km) north of Las Vegas. Nevada prison fight leaves three inmates dead, nine ...
The local county sheriff identified Anthony Williams, 41, as the third of the three people killed in Tuesday's fight at Nevada's maximum security prison in rural Ely.
The altercation killed three inmates and injured nine others, among the dead was a convicted murderer serving life without parole for killing an inmate. [6] [7] In September 2024, nearly 2000 inmates, including ones on death row, were transferred from Ely to High Desert State Prison and vice versa. This resulted in Ely's security level being ...