CONTACT VSU RESTITUTION The Victim Services Unit [VSU] NEVADA The Department of Corrections has provides assistance to crime DEPARTMENT OF the authority pursuant to statute to victims and their families after the remove money from an inmate’s perpetrator is prosecuted and sent CORRECTIONS account for the purposes of payment to a Nevada state prison to serve of restitution if the inmate is working in his or her sentence. To receive a minimum-wage or higher paying job while incarcerated. services from our office, victims register by filling out the notification The funds removed from an inmate’s form and returning it to VSU. account are sent to the Division of Parole & Probation for distribution to victims. If the judge ordered restitution CONTACT VSU to be paid to you, please keep the Victims and their families are Division of Parole & Probation welcome to contact our office to informed of any address changes so discuss concerns and to obtain that there is no delay in receiving the information regarding the offender. restitution owed to you. The Victim Services Unit is open Monday through Friday, 7:00 am to Should you have any questions A Walk regarding restitution, please feel free 4:30 pm. to contact our office at 775-887-3393 or e-mail us at [email protected]. Nevada Department of Corrections P.O. Box 7011 Through Carson City, NV 89702 VICTIM COMPENSATION General Information: The Department of Corrections does 775-887-3285 The not have the funding to provide victims www.doc.nv.gov or their families with funding to replace stolen items, attend counseling, etc. Those types of funds can be obtained Victim Services Unit System through the Victims of Crime In-State Toll Free Line: Compensation Fund. You can contact 1-888-333-6076 them directly at 775-688-2900 Business Line: 775-887-3393 [Northern Nevada Claims], 702-486- Brian Sandoval, Governor 2740 [Southern Nevada Claims], or Fax: 775-887-3167 [email protected] James “Greg” Cox, Director visit their website for more information Traci Dory, Victim Services at www.voc.nv.gov. DOC-2120 (3/12) Officer to the Florence McClure Womens SUPERVISION Correctional Center [FMWCC] in North Parole So What Las Vegas, NV. Female inmates Parole is a period of supervision for an Happens Now? sentenced in the northern part of the offender who has been released by the state are sent to NNCC for a brief period order of the Nevada Board of Parole of time prior to being transferred to Commissioners. The Division of Parole After the offender is sentenced, many FMWCC for the intake process. & Probation supervises offenders while crime victims wonder what happens on parole. next. This brochure will walk you Male offenders will stay at the intake through the system and explain what center for as little as 21 days until they Residential Confinement victims can expect to happen with their are transferred to another facility. Offenders who qualify for the residential offender. Female offenders will remain at the confinement programs [DUI, Drug Court FMWCC possibly for their entire stay. and Residential Confinement] are While the offender is at the reception considered an inmate of the DOC, but OFFENDER SENTENCED center, he or she will be assigned a are supervised by the Division of Parole The Judge will enter into record at custody level and be screened for & Probation. sentencing the amount of time that the medical, mental health or any other offender will serve in the Nevada special needs. Each offender will Lifetime Supervision Department of Corrections [NDOC]. At receive an orientation which outlines the Some sex offenders are given lifetime this time he may also include other rules for offenders and overview of the supervision at the time of sentencing by conditions such as restitution to the programs and services offered at that the Judge. These offenders are required victim or no contact with the victim. institution. to report to the Division of Parole & Probation. OFFENDER TRANSPORTED TRANSFERS After sentencing, the offender is under It is possible that an offender may NO SUPERVISION the control of the county sheriff until transfer to another institution or camp at Those offenders who serve their released to NDOC. The offender is any time during his or her incarceration. sentence are ‘discharged” from our transported to an intake facility, usually Some of the reasons that offenders may custody. Upon discharge, they are not within 2 weeks. transfer are: change in custody level, supervised by any agency. The only programming or needs of the DOC. exception is those offenders convicted of INTAKE CENTERS a sex offense. Those offenders are required to register with the Sex NDOC has three intake centers, two for RELEASE Offender Registry. men and one for women. Males go to The majority of offenders incarcerated either the Northern Nevada Correctional within NDOC will be released. They can Center [NNCC] in Carson City, NV, or be released under the supervision of the COURT the High Desert State Prison [HDSP]in Division of Parole & Probation, released The court has the authority to release Indian Springs, NV. In most cases the with no supervision or released by order the offender from his or her sentence male offender will go to the closest of a court. under judicial release, or through an intake center based on the county where appeals process that may result in an he was sentenced. Female offenders go overturned sentence or conviction. .