LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A homicide investigation is underway at High Desert State Prison, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned. Michael Williams, 35, died Thursday, according to the Nevada Department ...

Four inmates died this week at High Desert State Prison; one death is under homicide investigation and autopsies are pending.

A Southern Nevada prison inmate whose death was announced last week had been stabbed to death, the Clark County coroner’s ...

Four inmates at a Southern Nevada prison died in the span of a week while another inmate at a Northern Nevada prison also died, state corrections officials announced Friday. In separate press releases ...

Leaders from Nevada’s correctional officers union bemoaned the prison system’s widespread staffing shortages and worsening overtime payouts, pointing fingers at everyone from the governor’s office and ...

Between July and September 2025, the Nevada Department of Corrections paid out more than $18 million in overtime.

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Feb, 16, 2010 edition of the Lassen County Times. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Michael McDonald, 52, of ...