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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.
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.
Abraham Curry was the first warden of the prison. The Nevada State Capitol was built with stone from the prison's quarry.. The prison was established in 1862 by the Nevada Territorial Legislature at the site of the Warm Springs Hotel, located east of Carson City in Nevada Territory.
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State Alabama
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 ...
Ely State Prison is Nevada’s only maximum-security prison, with a maximum capacity of 1,183 inmates, and employs about 400 staff members. It is also home to the state’s death row.
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.
Ely State Prison is the only maximum-security prison in Nevada. In December 2022, several inmates held a hunger strike over what advocates and some family members described as unsafe conditions ...