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Nearly 100 people allege widespread physical, sexual abuse in Nevada juvenile facilities

A similar lawsuit in Los Angeles County reached a $4 billion agreement to settle more than 6,800 sexual abuse claims.

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Guards walk inside High Desert State Prison as seen on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019.

Nevada prisons blame overdoses on the mail. Skeptics question the state's research.

To curb drug use, the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) is proposing restricting physical mail from entering facilities and replacing it with electronic copies — a move that has drawn sharp criticism from criminal justice advocates who see physical mail as a morale-boosting connection between inmates and the outside world.

Why the Las Vegas Review-Journal just stopped printing its rival

The nation's last joint operating agreement required the Sun, which is smaller, to be printed as a daily insert in the Review-Journal. The latter has fought the arrangement, which was designed to preserve papers, saying the Sun can continue to publish but should foot the bill.