Section 33-3-26 – Agreements for jails or for jail services; pilot programs.
A. Any county or municipality may enter into an agreement, including an agreement with an independent contractor, to operate, or to provide and operate, jail facilities for the care and housing of prisoners; provided that, prior to July 1, 1987, no more than two pilot projects for operation, or provision and operation, of a jail […]
Section 33-3-27 – Jail agreements; approval; liability; termination; venue.
A. Agreements with a private independent contractor for the operation of a jail or for the incarceration of prisoners shall be made for a period of up to five years, but those agreements may allow for additional one-year, two-year or three-year extensions not to exceed a total of six extensions. Agreements binding on future governing […]
Section 33-3-28 – Jailers; peace officer powers.
A. Jailers and any employee of a local jail who has, at the particular time, the principal duty to hold in custody any person accused or convicted of a criminal offense or placed in the legal custody or supervision of a local jail shall have the power of a peace officer with respect to arrests […]
Section 33-3-24 – Prisoner-release program.
The sheriff of any county or the jail administrator of any jail with the approval of the board of county commissioners and the governing body of the municipality, as applicable, may establish a prisoner-release program in accordance with the provisions of Sections 33-2-43 and 33-2-44 NMSA 1978. The labor and industrial commission shall exercise the […]
Section 33-3-25 – Local government corrections fund created; administration; distribution.
A. There is created in the state treasury the “local government corrections fund” to be administered by the administrative office of the courts. B. All balances in the local government corrections fund are appropriated to the administrative office of the courts for payment to counties for county jailer or juvenile detention officer training; for the […]
Section 33-3-16 – United States prisoners.
It shall be the duty of the sheriff of each county, his deputy, jailer, jail administrator or independent contractor, to whom any person shall be remitted in conformity with a legal process issued by or under the authority of the United States, and he is hereby required, to receive such person or persons into his […]
Section 33-3-17 – [Reports of federal prisoners presented to federal court; account of expenses; approval by court.]
The sheriffs of the different counties of this state, whenever they shall have under their charge any prisoner as set forth in the foregoing section [33-3-16 NMSA 1978], shall at each regular term of the district court for the United States, submit to said court a list of all the prisoners under their charge by […]
Section 33-3-18 – Counties without jails; arrangements with other counties.
In case any county in this state lacks a jail or proper place of confinement for its prisoners, the board of county commissioners of that county shall make contractual arrangements with other counties, municipalities or independent contractors for the incarceration and care of its prisoners, and that jail so designated by any board of county […]
Section 33-3-19 – Prisoners in jails; work.
It is the duty of the sheriffs, jail administrators as defined in Section 4-44-19 NMSA 1978 or independent contractors in charge of the jails of the state to compel the prisoners who are sentenced to imprisonment in the jails to work on public projects without pay or remuneration whatsoever. A prisoner may be compelled to […]
Section 33-3-20 – Repealed.
ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1983, ch. 181, § 19, repealed 33-3-20 NMSA 1978, as enacted by Laws 1909, ch. 89, § 2, relating to duty of sheriffs to enforce provisions for labor, effective March 19, 1983.