Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC) is a

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, near Lovelock.

History

Lovelock is in

and is the seventh major institution of the

. It was constructed and opened in two phases. The first started in August 1995 with two 168-cell housing units. Each cell can house two inmates. Construction on the second phase saw two 168-cell units and two 84-cell units made available for the institution to hold 1,680 offenders. Its industrial plant, housed in two buildings, makes garments and mattresses. The facility received wide media coverage in 2008 when former American

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star O. J. Simpson was sent there after being sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years before becoming eligible for parole, which was granted on July 20, 2017. He was released on October 1, 2017.

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