- State Prison
- Nevada
- PO Box 7007, Carson City, NV 89702
- 775-684-3000
- Official Website
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NV DOC – Warm Springs Correctional Center (WSCC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 775-684-3000
This facility is for adult inmates.
The inmates housed at Warm Springs Correctional located at 3301 E 5th St in Carson City, NV are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.
WSCC is a medium-security state prison that has been converted to different security levels multiple times throughout its history, and at one point was a women's correctional facility. Today Warm Springs Correctional houses up to 532 adult male inmates. The facility is secured by two armed guard towers and a security fence. The core services building, which houses food services, health care services, education facilities, and the gymnasium, was added in 1981. The 1995 and 1997 legislatures authorized a fourth housing unit, two towers, a new security fence, additional classrooms and a complete remodel of the kitchen, dining room and entrance building. The completion of this project in July 1998 (funded in part with federal monies) brought the budgeted capacity of WSCC from 260 to 510 inmates. In July 2008, WSCC was converted back to a men’s medium custody institution. This facility participates in the prison industries and employs selected inmates in a recycling operation that takes former casino playing cards and cuts them to be repackaged and sold.
WSCC provides program opportunities including literacy training, high school, adult basic education, vocational training, community college, addiction recovery, the STOP program for sexual offenders, street readiness programs, and a variety of socialization programs offered by the out-patient psychology division. WSCC also accommodates a variety of religious services through a very active chapel, which includes music and choir.
The Carson City School District offers a high school diploma and adult basic education (GED), in addition to literacy and ESL through its teaching staff. Vocational training includes culinary arts and computer science. The average enrollment in the Carson Adult High School programs is 292 inmates per month, which is approximately 86% of the educational program capacity. Evening college classes have been provided through Western Nevada College.
The "Pups on Parole" program coordinates with the Nevada Humane Society to train inmates to be dog gentlers. Inmates learn to train dogs so they are able to be around people from three to 90 years of age. Please review the "Puppies up for Parole" website. This web page is updated daily and all dogs featured on the page are ready for adoption.
Prison Industries – On December 20, 2000, WSCC launched its first Prison Industry. A crew of thirty inmates recycle playing cards for resale in area gift shops and retail outlets. The work involves trimming the corners of decks with an industrial cutter (to denote that the decks may not be used again in a casino), sorting the cards to ensure each deck is complete and packaging them for resale.
Inmates can use money in their inmate banking account to purchase debit calling time through the Inmate Store.
visitation Info
NV DOC – Warm Springs Correctional Center (WSCC) – Visitation
Visiting: Saturday and Sunday and Holidays from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
