Officials from the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) said that skyrocketing overdoses are one of the main drivers behind overtime expenses that have cost the state more than $18 million annually ...

CARSON CITY — Prison medical costs are climbing as Nevada’s inmate population ages and more expensive treatments become available, leading to a significant increase in requested funding to provide ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Nevada Department of Corrections is investigating the deaths of four inmates at two state prisons as homicides, with officials citing drug debt as a factor. According to the ...

A Northern Nevada Correctional Center inmate died Tuesday, according to a news release. The release, sent Thursday from the Nevada Department of Corrections, states that Samuel Hamett, 72, was ...

Alexander Christopher Ewing, 57, is already serving time for attempted murder. Authorities have used DNA to link four cold case murders from 1984 in Colorado to a man already serving time for ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man is accused of smuggling drugs to Nevada and California prison inmates by sending fentanyl-laced envelopes disguised as legal mail in a scheme that spanned at least seven ...

Western Nevada College (WNC) has become the first institution in the state to receive approval from the U.S. Department of Education to offer Pell Grants to incarcerated students. This approval comes ...

Nevada OKs $4.6M settlement with family who says beatings by staff killed prisoner. Read more from The Nevada Independent.