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Nevada State Prison (NSP) was a penitentiary located in Carson City. The prison was in continuous operation since its establishment in 1862 and was managed by the Nevada Department of Corrections . It was one of the oldest prisons still operating in the United States. [ 1 ]
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] Due to a lack of elevator access this gas chamber was not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
Nevada State Prison had been the state-designated facility for hangings since 1903. At the urging of the Mormon population, [ 11 ] the Nevada Legislature passed a statute in 1910 that became effective in January 1911, [ 12 ] which allowed condemned prisoners to choose between execution by shooting or hanging. [ 13 ]
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It was constructed in 1961 and was known as the Nevada Women’s Correctional Center until September 1997, when it was converted to a medium security men’s prison in 1998, then to a minimum custody facility in July 2003, before being converted back to a men's medium custody institution in July 2008. [1]
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Nevada State Prison (NSP), also in Carson City, which was the only state penitentiary for many decades, underwent expansion in the early 1960s. The result was a second facility in Carson City that would become known as Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC). [4] The correctional center was opened in 1964 with three housing units.