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High Desert State Prison is a state prison in unincorporated Clark County, Nevada, near Indian Springs, northwest of Las Vegas. It is the largest institution of the Nevada Department of Corrections and the newest, having opened on September 1, 2000. [1] It has a capacity of 4,176.
Lovelock Correctional Center: Pershing: Nevada State Prison: Carson City: Closed on May 18, 2012 Northern Nevada Correctional Center and Stewart Conservation Camp: Carson City: Northern Nevada Transitional Housing Washoe: Southern Desert Correctional Center: Clark: Southern Nevada Correctional Center: Clark: Closed in 2008 Florence McClure ...
A women's facility at Carson City, Warm Springs Correctional Center, was converted to house male inmates. The 145,000-square-foot (13,500 m 2) Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center was built to house around 500 inmates. The dedication was held on Saturday, September 13, 1997, with inmates being moved in the following week.
Southern Desert Correctional Center opened in February 1982 with seven 102-cell housing units, one of which housed federal prisoners until the NDOC took it over in 1987. A new 200-cell housing unit opened in 1989, and two 240-bed dormitory-style housing units were added in March 2008, bringing the population capacity from 714 in 1982 to its ...
Southern Nevada Correctional Center was a medium-security men's prison in Jean, Clark County, Nevada (about 30 miles south of Las Vegas), owned and operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections. The facility has been closed since 2008.
There is a lot of shooting going on inside Nevada’s correctional system. This year, at least 22 inmates at three facilities were injured by shotgun blasts. In the first half of 2015, shotguns were used in 14 incidents at High Desert alone. Three were birdshot, the rest blanks.
A convict captured on video launching himself over a courtroom bench violently attacking a Nevada judge earlier this year has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison.. On Tuesday, Judge ...
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.