Ask Nevada officials why prisoners who have been granted parole are still behind bars, and they’ll say prisoners are refusing to leave. But their numbers don’t match, and prisoners themselves have a different answer.
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The Nevada Supreme Court has unanimously overturned a $500,000 jury verdict awarded to a Las Vegas man who said a priest groped him at age 13.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — The family of inmate Neil Early who was fatally injured while incarcerated at Arizona State Prison has filed a notice of claim alleging negligence in the death. The initiative requests payment of $7.5 million.
Two inmates jailed in Southern Nevada prisons died over Memorial Day weekend, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced Wednesday.
One man was stabbed after two men got into an altercation at the Paradise Bar on the Colorado River just north of Parker, Arizona, near Lake Havasu, on Saturday.
A 77-year-old inmate at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center died at the Carson Tahoe Hospital in Carson City on Thursday.
The state admitted the parole system was broken a decade ago, ACLU of Nevada Director Tod Story says, but apparently hasn’t made fixes.
Guards at High Desert State Prison may start using nonlethal, rubber shotgun rounds. The proposal came up Tuesday during a Board of State Prison Commissioners meeting in Carson City that was teleconferenced to Las Vegas.
The officer injured in Sandy Valley on Monday night was burned after aerosol cans ignited at the bottom of a burn barrel, according to Las Vegas police.
There are rules, and then there’s reality. And the reality is, Nevada’s corrections officers are regularly ordered to do more with less.