NDOC has a small chaplain staff and a cadre of more than 800 Volunteers who provide worship services and spiritual activities for Nevada’s inmates. Our Supervising Chaplain coordinates religious services for the department and is responsible for ensuring that we offer inmates the opportunity to practice their spiritual beliefs and access to community resources as much as possible. NDOC recognizes dozens faith groups addressing religious ideologies from the traditional to ancient earth-based and Native American cultural practices. We conduct an annual review of our inmates’ Faith Declarations to ensure that we have the services and volunteers that truly represent our inmates’ spiritual needs. AR 810 delineates NDOC’s religious policies and practices. AR 809 sets forth our rules for Native American practices in our prisons. AR 814 deals with special religious diets.

The Supervising Chaplain handles our Carson City prisons and camps, and five other chaplains are assigned to Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC), Ely State Prison (ESP), High Desert State Prison (HDSP) and Southern Desert Correctional Center (SDCC) in Indian Springs, and the Southern Nevada Women’s Correctional Center (SNWCC) in North Las Vegas. Chaplains, assisted by volunteers, also service the camps near their assigned prisons. Our Supervising Chaplain is Reverend Jane Foraker-Thompson, Ph.D., and she can be reached in our central office located at 5500 Snyder Avenue, Building 17, in Carson City or by phone at (775) 887-3362 or jforaker@doc.nv.gov.