Nevada Southern Detention Center on Tuesday confirmed an employee has died from “potential COVID-19 related issues,” days after news of an inmate death due to the coronavirus.
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A federal prisoner in Nevada has alleged in a civil rights lawsuit that jailers have mishandled a coronavirus outbreak at a facility in Pahrump.
As of Monday, 56 of Nevada’s nearly 12,500 state prisoners have been tested for the coronavirus, representing less than half a percent of inmates.
A plan to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus inside prison walls should be reviewed by the state’s top leaders, the Nevada Sentencing Commission decided Monday.