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The Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility made an agreement with the BLM in 1988 which began their well-known but short-lived Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Program. At first, only older horses were sent to the program so they would be easier to adopt, but it eventually turned into a much larger program, inspiring similar programs to ...
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]
The Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) is a men's maximum-security prison located in unincorporated Santa Fe County, [1] 15 miles (24 km) south of central Santa Fe, on New Mexico State Road 14. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department .
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 ...
Lunsford pleaded not guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter in the third-degree on Dec. 18, 2023. ... Judges in New Mexico are able to recuse themselves from presiding over a case for a ...
The prison is owned by CoreCivic and operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department. [2] It opened in 1989 as the first privatized women's prison in the U.S. In late 2015 state officials announced a plan to transfer all female inmates out of the facility, and to consolidate New Mexico's estimated population of 1200 sex offenders here. [ 3 ]
Capital punishment was abolished in the U.S. state of New Mexico in 2009. The law replaced the death penalty for the most serious crimes with life imprisonment and life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. This makes New Mexico the fifteenth state in the U.S. to abolish capital punishment.
Dec. 9—Correction appended Tempers flared in both the House and Senate on Wednesday as the Legislature's redistricting process identified potential losers in the battle to build electoral maps ...