Nevada State Prison
NDOC: Nevada State Prison
Inmates are employed in the usual institutional work assignments, food service, janitorial, maintenance, yard labor crews, laundry, gymnasium, school, law library, and infirmary. Over 60 inmates are employed in the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety’s License Plate Factory and in the Prison Industries Bookbindery and Print Shop and the Mattress and Soap Factory programs. ... [Read More]
NDOC: High Desert State Prison
The High Desert State Prison is the largest major institution in the Department of Corrections. It is the first institution in what will become a large southern Nevada prison complex. High Desert was designed to incorporate much of the best technology available to corrections to provide for officer safety and the management and control of inmates. The complex totals approximately 1,576,000 square feet of space. The institution opened September 1, 2000 and became the reception unit for Southern Nevada. ... [Read More]
NDOC: Ely State Prison
The Ely State Prison was the department’s sixth major institution. It was designed to replace the Nevada State Prison as the department’s maximum security prison. The design incorporated much of the best detention hardware and operating mechanisms available. Staff safety and positive control of the inmate population were the philosophical concepts controlling the design. The institution was designed and constructed in two phases. The first phase opened in 1989 with two single cell housing units; the second phase opened in 1990 with two additional single cell housing units. The housing units at the Ely State Prison were the prototypes for the design of the units at the Lovelock Correctional Center. ... [Read More]
NDOC: High Desert State Prison
Phase Two of the High Desert State Prison was 99-C1 and the project contract award was for $41,814,000.00. There are no current CIP projects. There is one (1) pending CIP project: Phase III which is awaiting Legislature approval. ... [Read More]
NDOC: High Desert State Prison
Work and Industry programs are an important part of the daily activities for all inmates. Inmatesare employed in the usual correctional institution work assignments including maintenance, foodservice, labor crews, janitorial, laundry, law library, and infirmary. Those who have earned theprivilege of being in level one status are afforded the opportunity to work in Prison Industries.At High Desert, approximately 160 inmates are employed in the current prison industry programof card sorting. Prison industry is attempting to develop work programs for the facility. ... [Read More]
NDOC: High Desert State Prison
In addition to the school districts program, the department provides a Literacy Program toprovide inmates with skills to qualify for enrollment in the high school diploma or G.E.D.programs. In addition to a professional staff member, the Literacy Program trains and usesinmate tutors. There are currently 326 inmates enrolled and several inmate tutors in the LiteracyProgram at the High Desert State Prison. Beginning July 2, 2001, the Literacy Programintroduced a summer school program that provides courses in Spanish, Commercial DriversLicense and Computer Literacy.In January of 2002, High Desert State Prison via the Law Offices of the Federal PublicDefender's Office in Las Vegas will embark in a pilot training program for inmate law clerks.This program will help the inmates in assisting other inmates to prepare state post-convictionpetitions. ... [Read More]
Welcome to High Desert State Prison
Construction of the new prison began on July 14, 1993, with a budget of $240 million. In just 24 months the new prison became a dominant part of the surrounding landscape. The construction of the prison consumed 71,985 yards of concrete, 20,000 tons of steel, 364 miles of electrical wire and 7 miles of chain link fencing, combined with the multitude of other required construction materials necessary in the completion of this modern prison complex. ... Directions: High Desert State Prison is located 210 miles North of Sacramento, 298 miles North East of San Francisco. For additional directions, go to www.Mapquest.com . ... [Read More]
State of Nevada
The First Territorial Legislature was held at Abraham Curry's Warm SpringsHotel, located east of Carson City where the State Prison now stands. Mr. Curryprovided the territorial legislators a rent-free room, divided by a canvaspartition; furnishings for the room and clean sawdust on the floor that servedas both carpet and spittoon; and transportation to downtown Carson City, some1-1/2 miles to the west, by a horse-drawn streetcar on wooden rails. ... Organizationof State Government ... [Read More]
NDOC: Southern Nevada Correctional Center
Work assignments at the Southern Nevada Correctional Center are similar to those in other institutions: maintenance, labor crews, food service, janitorial, laundry, law library, gymnasium, school, and similar assignments. Some prison industry assignments in telemarketing were available until recent legislation made the program illegal. ... The Southern Nevada Correctional Center, the department’s fourth major correctional institution, opened in January 1978. The institution was originally planned to house younger offenders in a program oriented, non-traditional correctional environment. The architecture of the University of Nevada’s athletic complex, Reed High School in Reno, and the Federal Correctional Facility at Pleasanton, California contributed significantly to the institution’s physical plant design concept. The institution has seven, 50 cell medium security housing units which, while consistent with the design concept, provide very marginal security by contemporary correctional standards. Each cell was doubled bunked so the general population Units 1 through 4 each house 100 inmates. Unit 5 houses 50 medical extended care inmates as well as 25 inmates in administrative and disciplinary segregation. Unit 6 is also a medium custody, general population unit, but it also houses ... [Read More]
NDOC: High Desert State Prison
As the reception and intake center, High Desert State Prison processes all inmates from the jails and courts of the southern part of the state. Inmates receive intake processing, identification, medical and mental health examinations and screenings. Initialclassification is conducted to determine which institution the inmate will be assigned to and what their custody level will be. Inmates will receive an orientation, a rule book, classroom instruction on the rule book and sample of self-help programs. High Desert State Prison has incorporated a level management system that places personal responsibility on the inmate for his own behavior. The level system consists of five (5) levels where inmates earn incremental and sequential amounts of responsibilities, privileges and opportunities. Movement through the levels is dependent upon theinmates' behavior, attitude, work and programming performance. New inmates areallowed to volunteer for an accelerated path through the level system with ... [Read More]
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