Section 33-1-17 – Private contract.
A. The corrections department may contract for the operation of any adult female facility or for housing adult female inmates in a private facility with a person or entity in the business of providing correctional or jail services to government entities. B. The corrections department may contract with a person or entity in the business […]
Section 33-1-18 – Funds created.
There are created in the state treasury special funds to be known as the “corrections department building fund”, the “Guadalupe county prison fund” and the “New Mexico prison fund”. The funds shall consist of money appropriated by the legislature, from year to year, from the income of the permanent fund and land income of which […]
Section 33-1-4.2 – Restraints on pregnant prisoners.
A. An adult or juvenile correctional facility, detention center or local jail shall use the least restrictive restraints necessary when the facility has actual or constructive knowledge that an inmate is in the second or third trimester of pregnancy. No restraints of any kind shall be used on an inmate who is in labor, delivering […]
Section 33-1-5 – Director of corrections; employment.
The administrative head of the division is the “director of corrections” who shall be employed by the secretary of the criminal justice department [secretary of corrections] to serve at the pleasure of the secretary of the criminal justice department [secretary of corrections]. The director shall possess a degree from an accredited university and a minimum […]
Section 33-1-6 – Powers and duties of secretary.
The secretary of corrections and criminal rehabilitation [secretary of corrections] shall: A. employ administrative, professional and clerical personnel in accordance with the Personnel Act [Chapter 10, Article 9 NMSA 1978] as necessary to carry out the work of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department [corrections department]; B. adopt rules and regulations necessary for administration of […]
Section 33-1-7 – Construction of applicable laws.
Wherever, under any statute which was administered or enforced prior to July 1, 1969, by the penitentiary of New Mexico board, the state board of probation and parole or by the boards of the New Mexico boys’ school or the girls’ welfare home or by the juvenile probation services division of the administrative office of […]
Section 33-1-8 – Earmarked funds.
Property or funds held in trust or earmarked for use by a specific correctional facility shall be kept for that use. History: 1953 Comp., § 42-9-10, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 221, § 10. ANNOTATIONS Repeals and reenactments. — Laws 1971, ch. 221, § 10, repealed 42-9-10, 1953 Comp., relating to transitional provisions concerning rules, […]
Section 33-1-9 – Liberal interpretation.
The Corrections Act shall be liberally construed to carry out its purposes. History: 1953 Comp., § 42-9-11, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 226, § 11.
Section 33-1-10 – Correctional officers; employees; acting as peace officers.
A. Correctional officers of the corrections department, or any employee of the corrections department who has at the particular time the principal duty to hold in custody or supervise any person accused or convicted of a criminal offense or placed in the legal custody or supervision of the corrections department, shall have the power of […]
Section 33-1-11 – Correctional officer qualifications.
Members of the corrections department correctional officer force, excluding correctional specialists, shall: A. at the time of their appointment, be citizens of the United States; B. at the time of their appointment, have reached age of majority; C. have at least a high school education or its equivalent; D. be of good moral character and […]