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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.
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).
Lovelock Correctional Center. Nevada State Prison (closed) Northern Nevada Correctional Center and Stewart Conservation Camp. Northern Nevada Transitional Housing. Southern Desert Correctional Center. Southern Nevada Correctional Center (closed) Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center (previously Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility)
And a 62-year-old inmate named Lawrence Evans alleges that in January 2012, an officer skipped more than 400 pellets of birdshot off the ground to break up a dining hall fight. Two officers and 11 inmates were hurt, including Evans. “It felt like my entire left side was shredded!”. Evans wrote later.
Correctional cadets undergo a hiring process through the department's personnel unit in Carson City, Las Vegas and Ely, Nevada. Written, physical and psychological exams are administered before a person can enter the 8 week academy. Upon acceptance, an enrollee is now a CO/T (correctional officer trainee.)
September 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM. A Nevada coroner’s office ruled that an inmate who was pepper-sprayed, shackled and restrained with his face to the ground was killed by prison guards. An autopsy ...
McClure was born Florence Alberta Schilling on September 26, 1921, in Centralia, Illinois. She attended MacMurray College for Women and then transferred to Hardin Business College. After graduating in October 1941, she worked for the government during World War II where she met her husband, James McClure, an officer in the United States Air ...
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 ...