There are currently 60 men on death row at the prison. The Nevada Department of Corrections uses five different security levels: maximum, close, medium, minimum and community trustee.

Death row and Nevada’s execution chamber is at Ely State Prison. ... Ely State Prison opened in July 1989 and has the capacity for 1,183 inmates. In this July 11, 2018, file photo, ...

There are currently 60 men on death row at the prison. Ely State Prison was also the site of a hunger strike lasting nearly four weeks in 2022.

Inmates between Ely State Prison and High Desert State Prison near Las Vegas will be swapped. ... That includes all of Nevada’s death row according to the head of a prison guard union.

The prison's website says the facility can hold 1,183 inmates and has more than 400 employee positions.. Ely State Prison hold some of Nevada's death row inmates, KLAS-TV reported. According to ...

ELY, Nev. (FOX5) - An inmate at the Ely State Prison was stabbed and later died of his injuries on Friday, according to authorities. The Department of Corrections for the State of Nevada issued a ...

Located some nine miles north of Ely, a remote mining town “sitting at Nevada’s eastern edge of the ‘Loneliest Road in America,'” the facility holds all 60 of the state’s death row ...

48-year-old Death Row inmate Scott Dozier was convicted of murdering two young men in 2001 and 2002 and sentenced to death in 2007 before hanging ... Dozier died in Ely State Prison, Nevada, ...

Anthony Williams, 41, Connor Brown, 22, and Zacharia Luz, 42, were killed in the July 30 fight at Ely State Prison. Latest ... Nevada currently has 59 inmates on death row.

Ely State Prison is one of six Nevada prisons. It has almost 1,200 beds, houses the state’s death row for convicted killers and a lethal injection chamber that has never been used.

CARSON CITY (KTNV) — Over a dozen people are now facing charges after three inmates were killed in a prison brawl at Ely State Prison. The incident happened on July 30, 2024.