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Southern Desert Correctional Center
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Southern Desert Correctional Center is a state prison located in Clark County, Nevada. Rated capacity: 2,149. Reported population: 2,150. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Southern Desert Correctional Center (SDCC) is a state prison for men located in unincorporated Clark County, Nevada, with an Indian Springs post office address, owned and operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections. The capacity is 2149 inmates. Most are medium security. This facility should not be confused with the Southern Nevada Correctional Center, a state facility at Jean that closed in 2008, or the Nevada Southern Detention Center, a private prison at Pahrump run by Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the United States Marshals Service.
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Capacity
2,149
Current population
2,150
Occupancy
100%
Year opened
1982
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Nevada Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1982
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
5/100
Low concern5/100
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 100% of design capacity
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 100% · peers avg: 93% (+8%)
Capacity (beds)this: 2149 · peers avg: 547 (+293%)
Data 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 (Q28446755)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Southern Desert Correctional Center. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/southern-desert-correctional-center
Chicago
"Southern Desert Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/southern-desert-correctional-center.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-southern-desert-correctiona,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Southern Desert Correctional Center},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/southern-desert-correctional-center},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}