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 -- A federal appeals court Thursday struck down a Nevada prison policy imposed to crack down on sex between inmates and correctional officers at a women's prison that was described as an ...

LAS VEGAS — 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 said ...

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

The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office has officially transitioned all personal mail services on Thursday for the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility and the Truckee Substation Jail to Pigeonly Corrections.

A Nevada man was sentenced last week to a decade in prison after he took a 15-year-old girl from Colorado to Nevada earlier this year.