[2] As late as 2015, Nevada legislators raised the possibility of reopening it, if only to illustrate a political point.

Later a psychiatric center was established in Desert Hall, which housed a medium security psychological treatment facility for inmates deemed to be too impaired to live among the general population.

[citation needed] In 2006 the center installed the first in the nation electronic tracking system for all prisoners.

[4] The cell blocks are situated alongside the left, right, and rear sides of a central campus and, from the outside, resemble condominiums or apartments constructed in free-standing modules.

Instead of grass, shrubs, and trees, the compound inside the double fence contains raked gravel which is tan in color.