Coordinates 40.221123, -118.389614 Population 1,680 Phone +1 775-273-1300 | Status Operational every day Warden Quentin Byrne Opened August 1995 | |
Address 1200 Prison Rd, Lovelock, NV 89419, USA Similar Pershing County Sheriff, Pershing County School Di, Coeur Rochester Inc, Lovelock Police, Lovelock Review Miner | ||
Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC) is a Nevada Department of Corrections prison in unincorporated Pershing County, Nevada, near Lovelock. It is approximately 439 miles North-Northwest of Las Vegas, and 319 miles East-Northeast of San Francisco. Former American football running back O.J. Simpson is the most famous prisoner at this facility.
History
Lovelock is in Pershing County and is the seventh major institution of the Nevada Department of Corrections. It was constructed and opened in two phases. The first opened 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. Its industrial plant, housed in two 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) buildings, makes garments and mattresses.
The facility received wide media coverage in 2008 when former football star O. J. Simpson was sent there after being sentenced to thirty-three years imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years before becoming eligible for parole.