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Excerpts of body-worn camera footage from four corrections officers were released Friday by the New York Attorney General’s Office showing the in-custody beating of 43-year-old inmate Robert ...
A spokesperson for the Nevada Department of Corrections did not immediately respond to a request asking for more information on Tuesd 3 inmates dead and at least 9 injured in rural Nevada prison ...
In the first half of 2015, shotguns were used in 14 incidents at High Desert alone. Three were birdshot, the rest blanks. Throughout the state, on average, officers fired a live shotgun round once every 10 days between January 1, 2012, and June 26, 2015, not including warning shots, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC).
The death row for women is in the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center (previously Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center). [7] The execution chamber at Ely State Prison opened in 2016. [8] Previously it was located in a former gas chamber in Nevada State Prison in Carson City. Nevada executes inmates via lethal injection. [4]
High Desert is one of the largest prisons in the United States, and is a medium security facility. High Desert is structurally the most secure prison in the Nevada Department of Corrections. [citation needed] In September 2024, Nevada's death row inmates were transferred to High Desert State Prison from Ely State Prison. As a result High Desert ...
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 ...
Two inmates were killed and more than 20 others were injured Friday during a group fight at the Lawton Correction and Rehabilitation Center.
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