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3 inmates in Eureka County are non-Hispanic white in Q1

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Nevada Department of Corrections Deputy Director William Quenga | https://doc.nv.gov/About/Director/Executive_Team/

Nevada Department of Corrections Deputy Director William Quenga | https://doc.nv.gov/About/Director/Executive_Team/

Eureka County had three non-Hispanic white individuals incarcerated in the first quarter of 2024, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.

This is an increase of 50% over the quarter before, when there were two 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 first quarter of 2024.

Overall, local jails in the county had three people incarcerated as of the first quarter of 2024.

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 Q1

Non-hispanic White [100%]Ethnicities <5% [0%]

Inmates in Eureka County in Q1

NameEthnicity
Joseph L. ThorsonNon-Hispanic white
Robert Edwin BashamNon-Hispanic white
Steven Don BarrackNon-Hispanic white

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