The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD; es, Departamento de Correcciones de Nuevo México) is a state agency of New Mexico, headquartered in

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Santa Fe County Santa Fe County ( es, Condado de Santa Fe; meaning ''Holy faith'' in Spanish) is located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 144,170, making it New Mexico's third-most populous county, after Bernalillo Cou ...

, near Santa Fe. It the department operates corrections facilities, probate and parole programs, a

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services, and an offender database.

Facilities

This list includes detention facilities in New Mexico which house prisoners of the state. * Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility, Clayton, Union County *

Central New Mexico Correctional Facility Central New Mexico Correctional Facility is a state-operated adult prison in Los Lunas, New Mexico, Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico, Valencia County, New Mexico. The facility was opened in 1980, as a medium security prison with 480 beds, b ...

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Guadalupe County Correctional Facility The Guadalupe County Correctional Facility is a privately owned medium-security state prison for men located in Santa Rosa, Guadalupe County, New Mexico, owned by the Correctional Properties Trust and operated by the GEO Group The GEO Group, ...

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, Guadalupe County * Lea County Correctional Center, Hobbs, Lea County (operated by the

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) * Northwest New Mexico Correctional Facility (formerly New Mexico Women's Correctional Facility),

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(operated by the

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; inmate capacity 611) *

Otero County Prison Facility The Otero County Prison Facility is a privately managed prison for men located in Chaparral, Otero County, New Mexico, operated by the Management and Training Corporation. The facility opened in 2003, and has a capacity of 1420. Otero County is ...

, Chaparral, Otero County (operated by the

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) *

Penitentiary of New Mexico The Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) is a men's maximum-security prison located in unincorporated Santa Fe County, south of central Santa Fe, on New Mexico State Road 14. It is operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department. The complex cons ...

, Santa Fe, Santa Fé County * Roswell Correctional Center, Roswell, Chaves County (inmate capacity 340) * Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility, Las Cruces,

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(inmate capacity 764) *Springer Correctional Center

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, Colfax County (inmate capacity 296) **The former New Mexico Boys School opened on October 1, 1909. The

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(CYFD) closed it in 2005 and was transferred to the New Mexico Corrections Department. It became the Springer Correctional Center.Springer Correctional Facility
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New Mexico Corrections Department. Retrieved on December 6, 2013. * Western New Mexico Correctional Facility,

(inmate capacity 440)

Security Levels

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.

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, as well as the closing of the prison cellhouses and dormitories that were in use at the time of the riot.

References

External links

New Mexico Corrections Department
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Facilities

Security Levels

1980 riot

See also

References

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