A High Desert State Prison inmate died Monday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. John Layton Stokes, 56, died about 1:02 p.m. at the prison. He was committed from Elko County in ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada Department of Corrections announced Wednesday that it will be shifting the custody levels of two Nevada prisons, raising High Desert State Prison to a maximum ...

NEVADA (KTNV) — The Nevada Department of Corrections confirms its first case of COVID-19 after an employee tested positive at the High Desert State Prison. The facility said it has implemented ...

She said it appears as though excessive force and deadly force are applied “far too often” in Nevada prisons, and High Desert State Prison specifically. “There is absolutely no justification ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - An inmate at High Desert State Prison was killed by his cellmate in a stabbing last Thursday. The ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — An estimated 20 inmates were involved in a brawl at High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs on Sunday night, according to a press release from the Nevada Department of ...

Two inmates were wounded in separate attacks at High Desert State Prison ... Since Dunn was transferred to Nevada from out of state, the department of corrections has no information on him in ...

Andrew Ryan Thurgood, 26, was pronounced dead Monday at the High Desert State Prison infirmary after he was stabbed during a fight with two other inmates in a facility dayroom, the Nevada ...

An inmate at the High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs was killed in an apparent homicide Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. Authorities say Isaiah Sharp, 21 ...

In September, the department said High Desert State Prison in southern Nevada will replace Ely State Prison as the state's maximum-security facility. Ely State Prison was transitioned to medium ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Authorities say a 26-year-old inmate serving time in an auto theft case is dead after a stabbing at High Desert State Prison outside Las Vegas. The Nevada Department of ...