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January 25, 2012

Nevada State Prison being decommissioned

  • The 150-year-old penitentiary needed $30M in renovations to bring it up to code.
    • By SANDRA CHEREB
    Associated Press

    CARSON CITY, Nev. — The last inmates packed up their duffel bags earlier this month and were transferred from Nevada State Prison in Carson City, a 150-year-old penitentiary that houses Nevada’s execution chamber, license plate factory and once boasted its own gambling joint.

    Most of the inmates that once numbered around 800 were moved to other prisons. A handful of minimum-security prisoners were the last ones to leave on Jan. 9, when they were shuttled into a van at a back door, then driven to the main gates where their belongings, packed in a few boxes and duffel bags, awaited them.


     
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