Under the lead of Samuel Cooke, a small group of inmates gathered weapons and explosives before rebelling against the military police staffing the facility. Coupled with the fact that the inmates routinely worked with explosives to blast through rock or old train cars littering the tracks and were used as essentially slave labor for a major infrastructure project in grueling conditions, an uprising was a question of time. However, as the war with the Legion escalated, more and more prison guards were redeployed to the Colorado against the warden's objections. The inmates were tasked with maintaining a railroad alongside the Long 15 under military supervision, keeping the vital link between the Boneyard and New Vegas alive.

When the NCR occupied the Mojave, it became a perfect spot to house prisoners on a work release program. In the distant past, the NCR Correctional Facility was the Jean Conservancy (aka Southern Nevada Correctional Center), a low-security all-female prison.

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