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Work to change historic Nevada prison to museum is going slow
By reviewjournal.com- Sean Whaley
Published: 12/30/2014

CARSON CITY — Rusty gates that used to clang shut behind inmates sentenced to serve time at what was one of the West’s oldest territorial prisons might one day swing open for visitors and history buffs at the Nevada State Prison.

Closed since January 2012, the prison, much of it built of sandstone quarried on the site, is picturesque as prisons go.

The old prison yard, with cell blocks rising above it on the north and east, looks like something out of a movie. And in fact it has appeared in a few films over the years, from “State Penitentiary” in 1950 to “An Innocent Man” in 1989 starring Tom Selleck.

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