NV DOC – Pioche Conservation Camp (PCC)

NV DOC – Pioche Conservation Camp (PCC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 775-623-6530

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at NV DOC – Pioche Conservation Camp (PCC) located at 1 Hardtimes Road
PO Box 509 in Pioche, 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.

Established in 1980, the Pioche Conservation Camp (PCC) was the first Conservation Camp established by the Nevada Department of Corrections in Rural Nevada. It provides Initial Attack Wildland Firefighting Crews operated by the Nevada Division of Forestry for Lincoln County and the state of Nevada. Along with community project crews, Emergency Crews have been dispatched to other Natural Disasters including the 1997 Floods in Carson City and 2003 in Caliente, Nevada. Crews from PCC also participated in the recovery efforts of the Space shuttle COLUMBIA in May 2003. In 2008 Emergency Crews responded twice to California (Chico and Grass Valley). Every year fire crews are sent out statewide to render assistance with major fires.

Pioche Conservation Camp coordinates with the Nevada Division of Forestry in the training and operating Community Project and Wildland Firefighting Crews year round. Inmates can receive their GED or High School Diploma along with Anger Management and New Beginnings as other programs offered.

Vocational Training
More than 78% of inmates come to prison with minimal job training. Vocational skills are taught to Nevada inmates by the school districts and colleges, prison industries, and the Nevada Division of Forestry. Inmates can learn culinary skills, construction trades, animal science, fire-fighting, auto mechanics and restoration, business and management, equipment repair, HVAC installation and repair, welding, furniture manufacturing, dry cleaning, computer skills and more. Inmates may also get prison jobs as clerks, cooks, janitors, maintenance workers, landscapers, construction crews and other such positions that provide them on-the-job training.
Incentives for Inmates
Nevada law provides incentives for offenders to earn an education while incarcerated; among these incentives is the application of educational credits toward the reduction of sentences. An offender, who earns a certificate, educational or vocational, while behind bars, may qualify to expedite his/her release date.
Reducing Recidivism
When combined with other rehabilitative programs, education is a powerful factor in reducing recidivism. Rigorous study gives offenders the intellectual leverage they need to revise their view of themselves and leave prison better equipped to contribute positively to their families and communities. Education has been the longest running and most successful rehabilitative program in our prison history.
Community Resources
Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons, Inc. (FFIP)
FFIP is designed to provide support to friends and family of those incarcerated. The group's contact information is as follows:
P. O. Box 27708
Las Vegas, NV 89126
ffipnv.org
Little Children Big Challenges: Incarceration
Sesame Street's newest initiative is a bilingual (English/Spanish) multimedia outreach, providing much-needed resources to support and comfort young children (ages 3-8) throughout their parents' incarceration.
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/press-room/incarceration/

visitation Info

NV DOC – Pioche Conservation Camp (PCC) – Visitation

Visiting: Saturdays and Sundays

8 a.m. to 11 a.m.