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A former state prisons chief who left the position in 2019 is returning to the post under newly inaugurated Gov. Joe Lombardo.
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Authorities say a former state prison inmate who headed a northern Nevada drug trafficking ring has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
Authorities say at least 52 prisoners have been killed by other inmates during a riot at a prison in northern Brazil. Para state prison officials say 16 of the victims were decapitated.
Authorities have rejected a teenager's claim that he is an Illinois boy who disappeared in 2011 at age 6.
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Bill Cosby has been moved to a general population unit as he serves three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault in Pennsylvania.
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When you drive I-580 in Carson City, you pass a state icon. The old Nevada State Prison in Carson City closed for good in 2012, but plans are in the works to reopen it. Not as a prison, but as a museum.
The California inspector general says guards at an isolated state prison have created a "culture of racism," engage in an alarming use of force against inmates and have a code of silence encouraged by the union that represents most corrections officers.
Authorities say a Nevada state prison inmate who escaped 11 days ago in Ely has been arrested in Las Vegas.
A lawyer who says her client was wounded in the same shooting says a 28-year-old Nevada state prison inmate shot and killed by a guard was handcuffed at the time.
Nevada has more than 80 prison inmates on death row. No one has been put to death since 2006 and no executions are scheduled