Several inmates appeared to have tampered with their prison cell doors to free themselves from their cells moments before ...

The cases of prison inmates—originally announced by the Nevada Department of Corrections merely as deaths—are now part of ...

Update 1:30 p.m. Wednesday The White Pine County Sheriff's Office identified two of the three inmates killed in a fight at Ely State Prison on Tuesday morning as Zackaria Luz, 43, and Connor Brown ...

Ely State Prison, the “designated maximum-security prison for the State of Nevada” employs over 400 people and can house up to 1,183 inmates, according to a description on its website.

Ely State Prison, which had previously served as the state’s maximum security institution, is now medium security. Over the course of several days, nearly 2,000 offenders were moved between the ...

Anthony Williams, 41, was identified by the Department of Corrections on Friday afternoon as the third fatality from an altercation that turned deadly at Ely State Prison earlier this week.

A Nevada prison is on lockdown after a fight led to the deaths of multiple inmates, according to corrections officials.

An Ely State Prison inmate died Tuesday morning, the Nevada Department of Corrections said. Inmate Joe Nathan Scott, 38, who was housed alone, was discovered unresponsive in his cell around 8 a.m ...

Ely State Prison is a maximum security penitentiary located in unincorporated White Pine County, Nevada, north of Ely. The facility, operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections, opened in ...

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 ...

The Ely State Prison, a maximum-security facility that is home to the state’s execution chamber, is located on 23 acres about 10 miles north of town in unincorporated White Pine County.