Section 31-21-11 – Parole to detainers to serve another sentence or for hospitalization and treatment.
Prisoners who are otherwise eligible for parole may be paroled to detainers to serve another sentence within the penitentiary or to the forensic treatment or alcohol treatment unit of the New Mexico behavioral health institute at Las Vegas or to any other specific hospital or residential treatment program determined necessary by the board. History: 1953 […]
Section 31-21-12 – Conditional release.
A. Any prisoner who is released by authority of the governor under any conditional release or other disposition made under the pardoning power, other than full pardon, shall, upon release, be deemed as released on parole until the expiration of the basic term or terms of imprisonment for which he was sentenced and until the […]
Section 31-21-13 – Information from prison officials.
It shall be the duty of all prison officials to grant to the members of the board, or its properly accredited representatives, access at all reasonable times to any prisoner over whom the board has jurisdiction under this act [31-21-3 to 31-21-19 NMSA 1978], to provide for the board or such representatives facilities for communicating […]
Section 31-21-5 – Definitions.
As used in the Probation and Parole Act: A. “probation” means the procedure under which an adult defendant, found guilty of a crime upon verdict or plea, is released by the court without imprisonment under a suspended or deferred sentence and subject to conditions; B. “parole” means the release to the community of an inmate […]
Section 31-21-6 – Protection of records.
All social records, including presentence reports, pre-parole reports and supervision histories, obtained by the board are privileged and shall not be disclosed directly or indirectly to anyone other than the board, director, sentencing guidelines commission or sentencing judge, but authorities of the institution in which the prisoner is confined shall have access to all records […]
Section 31-21-7 – Duties of director.
The director shall: A. provide probation and parole services and supervise probationers and parolees; B. assign officers to serve in each judicial district. Selection and assignment of officers to each judicial district shall be made by the director; C. obtain office quarters for the staff in each district as necessary; D. assign the secretarial, bookkeeping […]
Section 31-21-8 – Director to administer interstate compacts relating to convicts on probation and parole.
The director is the administrator of interstate compacts relating to convicts on probation and parole. History: 1953 Comp., § 41-17-21.1, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 33, § 1; 1977, ch. 257, § 57. ANNOTATIONS Law reviews. — For note, “Due Process, Equal Protection and the New Mexico Parole System,” see 2 N.M.L. Rev. 234 (1972).
Section 31-21-1 – [Construction of statutory provisions prescribing term of imprisonment; maximum or minimum.]
In all penal statutes of the state where by the terms of such statutes a definite punishment of imprisonment in the penitentiary is prescribed the time of such imprisonment in such statute shall be construed to be the maximum of imprisonment, unless such statutes expressly provide that such time is the minimum. History: Laws 1909, […]
Section 31-21-2 – Clothing, money and transportation furnished to prisoners on release from correctional facility.
Upon the release of any prisoner from a correctional facility of the corrections department: A. the superintendent shall provide him with suitable clothing as required and: (1) in the case of release on parole, transportation to his place of employment if within this state, or if not within this state, then to any place within […]
Section 31-21-3 – Short title.
Sections 31-21-3 through 31-21-19 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Probation and Parole Act”. History: 1953 Comp., § 41-17-12, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 232, § 1; 1963, ch. 301, § 1. ANNOTATIONS Cross references. — For inmate-release program, see 33-2-43 to 33-2-47 NMSA 1978. For inapplicability of the Rules of Evidence to sentencing […]