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Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center
The Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center (FMWCC, originally the Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility) is a state prison for women in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. All custody levels (minimum, medium and maximum) are housed there. It is operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC). It houses Nevada's female death row. History The Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility opened September 1, 1997. It was built and operated by Corrections Corporation of America. Built for $28 million, it was the first and only privately run prison in Nevada.Scott, Cathy.New women’s prison will help relieve overcrowding" ''Las Vegas Sun''. Friday September 12, 1997. Retrieved on January 6, 2010. It relieved prisons at Carson City and Indian Springs. A women's facility at Carson City, Warm Springs Correctional Center, was converted to house male inmates. The Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center was built to house around 500 inmates. The dedication was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Las Vegas
North Las Vegas is a suburban city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, in the Las Vegas Valley. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 216,961, with an estimated population of 251,974 in 2019. The city was incorporated on May 1, 1946. It is the fourth largest city in the state of Nevada. History During the 1860s, Conrad Kiel established a ranch at the modern-day intersection of Carey Street and Losee Road in what would be North Las Vegas. In 1917, libertarian Thomas L. Williams of Eureka, Utah visited the Las Vegas Valley, back when Las Vegas, Las Vegas Indian Colony, and Arden were the only entities in the valley. He did not approve of Las Vegas, perhaps because of its rowdiness (he was a Christian, or at least went to church), or because Las Vegas' attempts at municipal control over its citizens. However, he was pleased by the abundance of the valley's artesian water and potential for agriculture. Two years later in 1919, he moved himself and his family (his wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence McClure
Florence Alberta Shilling McClure (September 26, 1921 – November 5, 2009) was an American activist. Early life McClure was born Florence Alberta Schilling on September 26, 1921, in Centralia, Illinois. She attended MacMurray College for Women and then transferred to Hardin Business College. After graduating in October 1941, she worked for the government during World War II where she met her husband, James McClure, an officer in the United States Air Force, while she was working at the Security and Intelligence Division in Miami, Florida. The couple had two children, James and Carolyn, and after her husband retired from the military during the 1950s, the family moved to California. Career and activism In 1966, they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. McClure was hired by Burton Cohen, who she assisted in opening the New Frontier Hotel and Casino. She helped develop it into a popular resort and became one of the first female executives in the resort industry. She then worked as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CoreCivic
CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of muni ... by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants (CEO), Robert Crants, and T. Don Hutto, it received investments from the Tennessee Valley Authority, Vanderbilt University, and Jack C. Massey, the founder of Hospital Corporation of America. As of 2016, the company is the second largest private corrections company in the United States. CoreCivic manages more than 65 state and federal correctional and detention facilities with a capacity of more than 90,000 beds in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The company's reven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment In The United States
In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 states and in the federal capital, Washington, D.C. Capital punishment is, in practice, only applied for aggravated murder. Although it is a legal penalty in 27 states, only 20 states have the ability to execute death sentences, with the other seven, as well as the federal government, being subject to different types of moratoriums. The existence of capital punishment in the United States can be traced to early colonial Virginia. However, the unique nature of capital punishment being removed and reinstated into law throughout American history at different points in time is related to and aligns with the United States' racial history and its enslavement then prejudice towards Black Americans''.'' Along with Japan, South Korea, Capital punish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In North Las Vegas, Nevada
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisons In Nevada
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up, hoosegow or remand center, is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, a prison can also be described as a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed. Prisons can also be used as a tool of political repression by authoritarian regimes. Their perceived opponents may be impris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Prisons In The United States
The incarceration of women in the United States refers to the imprisonment of women in both prisons and jails in the United States. There are approximately 219,000 incarcerated women in the US according to a November 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative, and the rate of incarceration of women in the United States is at a historic and global high, with 133 women in correctional facilities per every 100,000 female citizens. The United States is home to just 4% of the world's female population, yet the US is responsible for 33% of the entire world's incarcerated female population. The steep rise in the population of incarcerated women in the US is linked to the complex history of the War on drugs and the US's Prison–industrial complex, which lead to mass incarceration among many demographics, but had particularly dramatic impacts on women and especially women of color. However, women made up only 10.4% of the US prison and jail population, as of 2015. The conditions of corr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Joyce Ford
Priscilla Joyce Ford (February 10, 1929 – January 29, 2005) was a convicted American mass murderer, who was sentenced to death for killing six people on Thanksgiving Day 1980 in Reno, Nevada by driving her car on the sidewalk into a crowd of people. She injured 23 more. A former teacher in New York, Ford had struggled for years with mental illness: she had been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia with religious and violent tendencies. She had been treated and released by seven different hospitals before moving to Reno in 1980. Ford filed numerous appeals of her death sentence. She was still being held on death row when she died of emphysema in prison, at the age of 75. She had long been a heavy smoker. Thanksgiving Day events In Reno, Nevada, a crowd was gathered to see the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Suddenly someone drove a Lincoln Continental car onto the sidewalk next to Spring Street and through the crowd for an estimated 100 feet. A total of six people we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brookey Lee West
Brookey Lee West (born June 28, 1953) is a convicted American murderer who is currently sentenced to life imprisonment at the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center for the murder of her mother, Christine Smith in February 1998. Though officially convicted of one murder she is suspected to have killed 3 people including her brother and husband. She was also suspected in the attempted murder of Diane Smith. Early life West grew up with her father, Leroy Smith, who taught her witchcraft, Satanism and violence from a young age. Her mother, Christine Smith, had numerous affairs and often neglected West and her brother, Travis Smith. Criminal career In 1993, Travis Smith disappeared. Though a body was never found, West was accused of having connections to Travis's disappearance after it was discovered that a man had checked into Santa Clara Valley Medical Center using Travis's social security number and the bill was sent to an address where West was residing. In 1994, West marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelsey Turner
Kelsey Nichole Turner (born May 5, 1993) is an American convicted murderer and former adult model. She has appeared in magazines such as ''Playboy'', '' Maxim'', and ''OneTen''. In 2019, Turner and her ex-boyfriend were accused of killing a Salinas psychiatrist, Dr. Thomas Burchard. She was arrested by FBI agents and Las Vegas police in Stockton, California, on March 21, 2019, and underwent a criminal trial for three years. She eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison in January 2023. Early life Turner was born on May 5, 1993, in Norfolk, Virginia, and grew up in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Later, she started modeling for adult magazines. During her modeling days, she lived in Salinas, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Murder of Dr. Thomas Burchard Turner and her ex-boyfriend Jon "Logan" Kennison have been in custody since 2019 for the murder of Dr. Thomas Burchard, a child psychiatrist. They are accused of beating the 71 year old psychiatrist to death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Rudin
Margaret Rudin (born Margaret Lee Frost; May 31, 1943) is an American woman convicted of the December 1994 murder of her husband, Las Vegas real estate magnate Ronald Rudin. She was incarcerated at Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center in North Las Vegas, Nevada. In May 2022, Rudin's conviction was vacated. Early life Rudin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, one of three daughters. The family moved frequently, and before graduating from high school, Rudin had lived in 15 states. Rudin had married four times before meeting Ronald Rudin at the First Church of Religious Science in Las Vegas. The couple wed on September 11, 1987. Murder and investigation Ronald Rudin (born November 13, 1930, Chicago) disappeared on December 18, 1994, aged 64, after walking to Margaret's antique shop which was in the same strip mall as his real estate office. On January 21, 1995, his charred dismembered remains were discovered near Lake Mojave along with the burnt remains of an antique steamer tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean, Nevada
Jean is a small commercial town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, located approximately north of the Nevada–California state line along Interstate 15. Las Vegas is located about to the north. There are no residents of Jean, making it the least populated town in the United States, but many people in nearby communities such as Primm and Sandy Valley have Jean listed in their mailing address because it is the location of the main post office for the 89019 ZIP code. South Las Vegas Boulevard ends about south of Jean, and it contiguously runs northbound past Las Vegas, ending near the I-15–US 93 Junction. The area is mostly commercial, with the exception of the post office and the courthouse, with commercial outlets such as Terrible's Hotel & Casino, the Jean Sport Aviation Center (used for activities like skydiving), Jean Conservation Camp (a minimum-security, all female Nevada Department of Corrections facility established in 1987) and a Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
