Ely State Prison completes transfer to medium security prison, memorial removed

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Ely State Prison completes transfer to medium security prison, memorial removed

The Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) completed its custody-level transfer on Sept. 11, making Ely State Prison a medium-security prison and High Desert State Prison, near Las Vegas, a maximum-security facility.Before this transfer, Ely State Prison was the state’s maximum-security institution. Over the course of several days, nearly 2,000 prisoners were moved between the two […] This article is available to Ely Times subscribers.…