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 ...

We're getting dozens of letters, phone calls and more from inmates and their families describing unsafe conditions in state prisons. Alyssa Bethencourt is fighting to get them answers LAS VEGAS (KTNV) ...

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 ...

Twenty people have been charged in connection with the deaths of three inmates who were killed in a maximum-security prison brawl in eastern Nevada last year, prosecutors said. The final arrest in 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 ...

Nevada prosecutors say 20 people have been charged in connection with a brawl at a maximum-security prison in eastern Nevada last year in which three inmates were killed and others were injured. The ...

LAS VEGAS — The family of a Nevada inmate who died in custody after he was pepper-sprayed, shackled and restrained is disputing the official account of his death in a coroner's report while also ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Nevada prison officials are investigating the alleged murder of an inmate inside High Desert State Prison outside Las Vegas, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned. Robert ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused prison guards of beating up a man and leaving him to die in 2023, a lawyer said Tuesday. The medical examiner ...