Eureka County is home to 2 non-Hispanic white inmates in Q4 2023

Eureka County is home to 2 non-Hispanic white inmates in Q4 2023
Kristina Shea, Deputy Director - Support Services — doc.nv.gov
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Eureka County had two non-Hispanic white individuals incarcerated in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.

This is a decrease of 33.3% from the quarter before, when there were three non-Hispanic white individuals incarcerated.

Steven Don Barrack, a 39-year-old non-Hispanic white man, was the youngest inmate in Eureka County in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Overall, local jails in the county had two people incarcerated as of the fourth quarter of 2023.

Every year, at least 38,000 people are booked into Nevada’s local jails.

Nevada has an incarceration rate of 713 per 100,000 people, which means it incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than any other democracy in the world, according to 2020 U.S. Census data obtained by the Prison Policy Initiative.

Distribution of Incarcerated Population in Eureka County in Q4 2023

Inmates in Eureka County in Q4 2023

Name Ethnicity
Joseph L. Thorson Non-Hispanic white
Steven Don Barrack Non-Hispanic white


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