| 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.
EDUCATION
PROGRAMS:
The
education program at the Ely State Prison is provided by the White Pine County
School District. All of the program is done by correspondence and closed
circuit television. The school district provides 17 staff to the program.
Current
enrollment:
ESP:
353 ECC: 18
Diplomas
granted in 1998:
ESP:
20 ECC: 2
GED
certificates:
ESP:
14 ECC: 17
There
are 3 inmates enrolled in the Great Basin Community College programs.
The
department offers a Literacy Program to enable inmates to be able to enroll in
the school district’s high school diploma and GED programs. The Literacy
Program at the Ely State Prison has only 1
inmate tutor and 5 students because of the comprehensive programming offered by
the school district.
CIP
PROJECTS:
There
are three current CIP projects: 95-M12, lightning protection, 97-M11L, culinary
floors, 99-M27, sewage plant improvements, an ECC project.
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