Department of Corrections required to provide certain information concerning inmates to State Demographer; revision of population counts to count inmate in block, block group and census tract in which inmate resided before incarceration; manner of counting inmates whose last residence unknown.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 360.288
in effect1. The Department of Corrections shall, after April 1 but not later than July 1 of each year in which the national decennial census is completed, furnish to the State Demographer for every inmate in a facility or institution of the Department:
(a) A unique identifying number, which may not include the name of the inmate and must be different than any other identification number assigned to the inmate by the Department;
(b) The street address of the facility or institution in which the inmate is sentenced to imprisonment;
(c) The last known residential address of each inmate immediately before the inmate was sentenced to imprisonment in a facility or institution of the Department and any alternative residential address of the inmate, if known by the Department;
(d) Whether the inmate is 18 years of age or older; and
(e) The race or ethnicity of the person, which must include a separate category for persons of Hispanic or Latino descent.
2. Not later than 30 days after provision of the redistricting data by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce to the State pursuant to Public Law 94-171, the State Demographer shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, revise the population counts for every block, block group and census tract as set forth in the census to count every inmate who was a resident of the State before incarceration in the block, block group and census tract of which an inmate was a resident before his or her incarceration based on the information received from the Department of Corrections pursuant to subsection 1.
3. For every inmate whose information is received pursuant to subsection 1 for whom the last known residential address is unknown or whose last known residential address was not in this State, and for every inmate in a federal facility or institution for whom the last known residential address is unknown, the State Demographer:
(a) Must not count the inmate in the block, block group and census tract of the facility or institution in which the inmate is incarcerated; and
(b) Must count the inmate as a resident of a state unit not tied to a specific block, block group, census tract or other geographical unit.
4. As used in this section:
(a) Block means the smallest geographical unit whose boundaries were designated by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce in its topographically integrated geographic encoding and referencing system.
(b) Block group means a combination of blocks whose numbers begin with the same digit.
(c) Census tract means a combination of block groups.
(d) Inmate means a person who was determined to be incarcerated in a facility or institution of the Department of Corrections at the last preceding national decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce.
(e) State Demographer means the demographer employed by the Department of Taxation pursuant to NRS 360.283 .
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-360.htmlFetched: 6/28/2026