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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.
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
This Nevada State Prison remained the only state correctional facility in Nevada for many decades. Both men and women were housed in the facility, in separate areas. Expansion of the Prison began in the early 1960s with the construction of a second facility on Carson City, which became the Northern Nevada correctional Center.
The mother of a Nevada inmate who died a year ago after he was beaten by corrections officers has filed a lawsuit accusing prison staff of conspiring with the coroner's office in Las Vegas to ...
Vazquez-Jimenez was convicted of sex abuse of a child. The cause of death was hanging, according to Utah county authorities. Jail or Agency: Utah County Jail; State: Utah; Date arrested or booked: 6/3/2015; Date of death: 5/16/2016; Age at death: 45; Sources: Utah County Sheriff's Office, www.heraldextra.com