Lovelock Correctional Center

Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC) is a Nevada Department of Corrections prison in unincorporated Pershing County, Nevada, near Lovelock.[1] It is approximately 439 miles (707 km) north-northwest of Las Vegas, and 319 miles (513 km) east-northeast of San Francisco.

Lovelock Correctional Center
Location1200 Prison Road, Lovelock, NV 89419
Pershing County
Coordinates 40.221123, -118.389614
StatusOperational every day
Population1,680
OpenedAugust 1995
WardenRenee Baker
Notable prisoners
O.J. Simpson (2008–2017)

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, with a minimum of nine years before becoming eligible for parole, which was granted on July 20, 2017.[2][3] He was released on October 1, 2017.[4]

gollark: "We have amazing devices allowing us to access much of society's knowledge and compute problems intractable as of a century ago and contact anyone else with one instantly but someone misused them so they're banned."
gollark: Also, my school banned use of phones at lunch/break for some stupid reason recently.
gollark: Well, that's hyperbolic, but mostly it doesn't.
gollark: Now, humans are currently much better at abstract thinking. Unfortunately no part of the education system encourages this.
gollark: I can *kind of* do most of the operations my calculator can, at probably a millionth of the speed.

References
  1. "Lovelock Correctional Center (LCC)". Nevada Department of Corrections. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  2. "Parole board votes to release O.J. Simpson from prison in October". Espn.com. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  3. Arseniuk, Melissa; Ryan, Cy (December 19, 2008). "O.J. transferred to Lovelock". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  4. http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/us/oj-simpson-released-from-prison/index.html
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