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New Mexico Corrections Department
Agency overview
JurisdictionGovernment of New Mexico
HeadquartersSanta Fe County, New Mexico, U.S.
Agency executive
  • Alisha Tafoya Lucero, Secretary
Websitehttps://cd.nm.gov/

The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD; Spanish: Departamento de Correcciones de Nuevo México) is a state agency of New Mexico, headquartered in unincorporated Santa Fe County, near Santa Fe.[1] It the department operates corrections facilities, probate and parole programs, a prisoner reentry services, and an offender database.[2]

Facilities and security levels

Penitentiary of New Mexico

This list includes detention facilities in New Mexico which house state prisoners. There are no federal prisons in New Mexico and the list does not include county jails located in the state.

Prison County Locality Inmate capacity Level I Level II Level III Level IV
Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility Union County Clayton No No Yes No
Central New Mexico Correctional Facility Valencia County Los Lunas 1,110 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Guadalupe County Correctional Facility Guadalupe County Santa Rosa 600 No No Yes No
Lea County Correctional Center[a] Lea County Hobbs 1,200 No No Yes No
Otero County Prison Facility[b] Otero County Chaparral 1,420 No No No Yes
Penitentiary of New Mexico Santa Fé County Santa Fe 790 No Yes No Yes
Roswell Correctional Center Chaves County Roswell 340 No Yes No No
Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility Doña Ana County Las Cruces 764 No Yes Yes No
Springer Correctional Center[c] Colfax County Springer 296 No Yes No No
Northwest New Mexico Correctional Facility[d][e] Cibola County Grants 611 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Western New Mexico Correctional Facility 440 No No Yes Yes

1980 riot

See more: New Mexico State Penitentiary riot

The Penitentiary of New Mexico Prison Riot, which took place on the weekend of February 2 and 3, 1980, was the most violent prison riot to date in the history of the American prison system. During an inmate takeover lasting only 36 hours, 33 inmates were killed and 12 officers were held hostage by prisoners who had escaped from a dormitory in the main unit, the southern half of the prison. Inmates were brutally butchered, dismembered, burned alive with torches and hung up in the cell house for display. Although taking many years, this riot eventually led to several changes in New Mexico's prison system, including a modern inmate classification system modeled after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons, as well as the closing of the prison cellhouses and dormitories that were in use at the time of the riot.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Operated by the GEO Group
  2. ^ Operated by the Management and Training Corporation
  3. ^ The former New Mexico Boys School opened on October 1, 1909. The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) closed it in 2005 and was transferred to the New Mexico Corrections Department. It became the Springer Correctional Center.[3]
  4. ^ Formerly New Mexico Women's Correctional Facility
  5. ^ Operated by the Corrections Corporation of America

References

  1. ^ "Directory Archived 2009-12-09 at the Wayback Machine." New Mexico Corrections Department. Retrieved on December 7, 2009. "Physical Address: 4337 NM 14, Santa Fe NM 87508"
  2. ^ "NM Corrections Department |". Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  3. ^ "Springer Correctional Facility." (Archive) New Mexico Corrections Department. Retrieved on December 6, 2013.

External links

New Mexico Corrections Department prisons
Incarceration of adults in the United States
State of New Mexico
New Mexico Cabinet Agencies
Authority control databases
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