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As courts delay Nevada execution, Texas prepares for eighth of 2018

Both states use lethal injection to impose the ultimate punishment, but that’s where the similarities end. Since 2012, Texas has used a single barbiturate to end inmates’ lives while Nevada wants to use an untried three-drug “cocktail.”

Police highlight mental health crisis within Clark County jail

As part of the national Stepping Up Initiative, Metropolitan Police Department officials are exploring new approaches to get low-level offenders into treatment instead of keeping them locked up.

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Lovelock Correctional Center inmate found dead in cell

An inmate was found dead in his cell early Tuesday afternoon in Lovelock Correctional Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement.

Nevada’s most-reversed federal judge should call it quits

It’s time for Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Clive Jones to retire. He’s the most-appealed and most-reversed federal judge in Nevada, according to the legal research service Westlaw.

New Corrections Department director named

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday picked a veteran corrections administrator from out of state to take the helm of Nevada’s beleagured prison system.

Inmate walks away from Jean Conservation Camp

Police are looking for an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security facility in Jean on Tuesday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.

Nye County searching for man who ambushed deputy

The Nye County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man accused of injuring a deputy in an ambush, officials announced late Tuesday night.

Inmate, 72, dies in Northern Nevada

A Northern Nevada inmate serving time for assault on a police officer and attempted murder died Thursday, the Nevada Department of Corrections said Friday.

Hundreds remember slain Carson City sheriff’s deputy

CARSON CITY — A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed early Saturday while responding to a domestic battery report on the east side of Carson City. The suspected shooter also died.

Inmate dies in Northern Nevada prison

A 52-year-old man incarcerated at Northern Nevada Correctional Center died Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.