ELY STATE PRISON and ELY

CONSERVATION CAMP

P.O. Box 1989

4569 North State Rt. 490

Ely, Nevada 89301

775-289-8800

 Administrative Staff:

 E.K. McDaniel, Warden

Debra Brooks, Associate Warden for Operations

Adam Endel, Associate Warden for Programs

Mike Scheel, Ely Conservation Camp Lieutenant

 The Ely State Prison was the department’s sixth major institution.  It was designed to replace the Nevada State Prison  as the department’s maximum security prison. The design incorporated much of the best detention hardware and operating mechanisms available. Staff safety and positive control of the inmate population were the philosophical concepts controlling the design. The institution was designed and constructed in two phases.  The first phase opened in 1989 with two single  cell housing units; the second phase opened in 1990 with two additional single cell housing units. The housing units at the Ely State Prison were the prototypes for the design of the units at the Lovelock Correctional Center.

 The institution’s two operations and support building divide the facility in the middle. The first building contains the administrative and operations offices, the school, law library, visiting, court room, and chapel.  The second building contains the gymnasium, kitchen and dining rooms, prison industries, and maintenance shops.  Gun posts provide for staff safety and control of inmates on both yards as well as in the dining rooms. There is a warehouse and trusty dormitory outside of the security perimeter. There are towers at each corner of the 1000 ft. by 1000 ft institution and there are rolls of razor ribbon between the perimeter fences.

 The institution has four housing unit buildings, each with two separate housing sections.  The sentence structure, institutional behavior, and disciplinary records of inmates determine where they  are assigned.  The first two housing units, now designated as  Units 1 through 4 were constructed in phase one. Unit 1 houses protective segregation inmates. Unit 2 houses inmates in administrative segregation. Unit 3 houses 84 condemned inmates; it is death row. Unit 3 also houses some additional administrative segregation inmates. Unit 4 also houses administrative segregation inmates, as well as inmates in disciplinary detention.

 The second two housing units, now designated as Units 5 through 8 were constructed during phase two. These units house the general population of the prison. Unit 5 houses those inmates who have the fewest privileges - called Level 4 - but who have  earned a transfer from the phase one side of the prison.  The inmates in units 6 through 8 - called Levels 3, 2, and 1 - have earned increased privileges on the basis of their positive adjustment and productivity.  Unit 8 houses those inmate who have earned and work productively at responsible institutional assignments.

 The warden of the Ely State Prison also supervises the Ely Conservation Camp for inmates assigned to the Nevada Division of Forestry and camp operations support assignments.

 STAFFING:

 The Ely State Prison has 341 staff:

ADMINISTRATION 4

PROTECTIVE SERVICES 17

CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS 272

PROFESSIONAL 11

SKILLED CRAFT 15

FOOD SERVICES 7

WAREHOUSE 5

CLERICAL 10

 

The Ely Conservation Camp has 12 staff:

 PROTECTIVE SERVICES 11

PROFESSIONAL 1

 

 CAPACITY:

 The capacity of the Ely State Prison is:

 Design: 784 Operating: 969 Emergency: 1008

 The capacity of the Ely Conservation Camp is:

 Design: 150 Operating: 150 Emergency: 150

  

WORK PROGRAMS:

 Work assignments at the Ely State Prison are limited because of the function of the institution, but some inmates are assigned to the usual institution maintenance, labor, janitorial, kitchen, laundry, and similar institutional support assignments. Approximately 25 prison industry assignments are available in the drapery manufacturing program.