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The Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center (FMWCC, originally the Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility) is a state prison for women in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. All custody levels (minimum, medium and maximum) are housed there. It is operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC). It houses Nevada's female ...
Brookey Lee West (born June 28, 1953) is a convicted American murderer who is currently sentenced to life imprisonment at the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center for the murder of her mother, Christine Smith in February 1998. Though officially convicted of one murder she is suspected to have killed 3 people including her brother and ...
Southern Desert Correctional Center: Clark: Southern Nevada Correctional Center: Clark: Closed in 2008 Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center: Clark: Previously known as Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility Houses Nevada’s women’s death row Warm Springs Correctional Center: Carson City: Closed in November 2022, but may be ...
The federal Bureau of Prisons will go to trial next year over claims it allowed an environment where guards at a now-shuttered California prison sexually abused incarcerated women, a judge ordered ...
PIERRE – The state’s new women’s prison may well be full when it opens, South Dakota’s corrections secretary said this week, a reality largely attributable to the prevalence of drug abuse ...
Makayla Lowe, who is incarcerated at MCI-Framingham, discusses some of the features of the new P.E.A.C.E. (Progressing Every Day and Changing in Every Way) program at the prison, June 13, 2024.
When a new women's prison was proposed to be built in Pioche, McClure successfully blocked the project, forcing it to be opened instead in North Las Vegas where it would be more easily accessible to families. The prison was renamed in her honor, the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center, in 2007. [4]
The death row for men is located at Ely State Prison. [6] 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.