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Northern Nevada Correctional Center
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Northern Nevada Correctional Center is a state prison located in Carson City (City) County, Nevada. Rated capacity: 1,619. Reported population: 1,411. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC), Stewart Conservation Camp (SCC), and the Saddle Horse and Burro Training Program are part of a prison complex located in Carson City. The correctional center was established in 1964 and is managed by the Nevada Department of Corrections. The medium security center housed 1,444 male and 9 female inmates as of September 2010. It is designed with a capacity for 1,619 inmates and employs a staff of 373 as of 2008. The adjacent Stewart Conservation Camp was opened in 1978 and is designed for 240 minimum security inmates who support the Nevada Division of Forestry with wildfire suppression and conservation efforts.
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Capacity
1,619
Current population
1,411
Occupancy
87%
Year opened
1964
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Nevada Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1964
Region
Nevada
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7058775)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Northern Nevada Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/northern-nevada-correctional-center
"Northern Nevada Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/northern-nevada-correctional-center.
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