Lovelock Correctional Center

Last updated

Lovelock Correctional Center
Lovelock Correctional Center 16 56 31 604000.jpeg
Lovelock Correctional Center
Location1200 Prison Road, Pershing County, Nevada, 89419 U.S.
Coordinates 40°13′22″N118°23′18″W / 40.22278°N 118.38833°W / 40.22278; -118.38833 40.221123, -118.389614
StatusOperational every day
Security classMinimum-Close
Population1,680
OpenedAugust 1995
Warden Nethanjah Breitenbach
Website Official website
Notable prisoners
O. J. Simpson (2008–2017)

Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC) is a Nevada Department of Corrections prison in unincorporated Pershing County, Nevada, United States, near Lovelock. [1]

Contents

History

Lovelock is in Pershing County and is the seventh major institution of the Nevada Department of Corrections. [1] It was constructed and opened in two phases. The first started in August 1995 with two 168-cell housing units. Each 80-square-foot (7.4 m2) 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. [1] Its industrial plant, housed in two 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) buildings, makes garments and mattresses. [1]

The facility received wide media coverage in 2008 when former American football star O. J. Simpson was sent there after being sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment. He had been convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping the year before.

His sentence required him to serve a minimum of nine years before becoming eligible for parole. Parole was granted to him on July 20, 2017, in his first year of eligibility. [2] [3] He was released on October 1, 2017. [4]

Notable inmates

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC)". Nevada Department of Corrections . Archived from the original on January 23, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Parole board votes to release O.J. Simpson from prison in October". Espn.com. 20 July 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  3. ↑ Arseniuk, Melissa; Ryan, Cy (December 19, 2008). "O.J. transferred to Lovelock". Las Vegas Sun . Archived from the original on 2017-07-28. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  4. ↑ "O.J. Simpson walks out of Nevada prison after 9 years". October 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  5. ↑ "Tony Ray Amati (1)". Reno Gazette-Journal. 10 December 1999. p. 51.
  6. ↑ "Thrill killer gets 40 years in prison". 9 December 1999.
  7. ↑ https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/nevada-man-bryce-dickey-found-guilty-of-raping-killing-teen-gabrielle-britney-ujlaky/
  8. ↑ https://thecinemaholic.com/gabrielle-britney-ujlaky-murder-where-is-bryce-dickey-now/
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.