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The facility can house 1200 state inmates of the New Mexico Corrections Department, and is operated by the private GEO Group under a contract administered through the county. [ 2 ] In its first year, LCCF was "the site of three fatal inmate stabbings, six nonfatal stabbings, a 'near-riot' and allegations of guards using excessive force ...
On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Total U.S. incarceration peaked in 2008. [ 5 ] The U.S. incarceration rate was the highest in the world in 2008. [ 4 ]
The Lea County Courthouse is an historic Art deco courthouse building located at 100 North Main Avenue in Lovington, New Mexico. It was designed in 1936 by architect Orville R. Walker of Lubbock and built by W. S. Moss. Until December, 1984, its second and third floors housed the county jail. [1] [2]
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Lea County is located in the southeast corner of New Mexico and borders Texas to the south and east. The Permian Basin, 250 mi (400 km) wide and 350 mi (560 km) long, underlies Lea County and adjacent Eddy County, as well as a large portion of West Texas. It produces 500,000 barrels of crude a day, and this number was expected to double in 2019.
Feb. 2—An Albert Lea woman on Friday was sentenced to staggered jail terms over the next four years, along with 10 years of supervised probation, in the overdose death of her sister in February ...
Lovington is a city in, and the county seat of, Lea County, New Mexico, United States. [4] The population was 11,009 at the 2010 census, [5] up from 9,471 in 2000.
Buildings and structures in Lea County, New Mexico (3 C, 11 P) E. Education in Lea County, New Mexico (2 C, 7 P) G. Geography of Lea County, New Mexico (2 C) H.