Camino Nuevo Youth Center

Camino Nuevo Youth Center basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 505-383-3829

This facility is for juvenile residents.

Juvenile Justice Services/Facilities (JJS) has adopted the Cambiar New Mexico model which shifts the focus from confinement and punishment to rehabilitation and regionalization. JJS continues to hold young people accountable while providing for their rehabilitation and preparing them for healthy adulthood. JJS protects them from harm, and continues to provide for public safety. Major initiatives include:

• Developing smaller, secure regional facilities across the state
• Creating smaller, safer and more nurturing living units/groups (therapeutic communities)
• Implementing youth-centered unit management and milieu therapy
• Developing individualized service plans addressing carefully assessed needs, strengths and risks
• Staffing of facilities with Youth Care Specialists who receive training that provides them with security and therapeutic skill sets
• Providing rich programming including education, vocational, behavioral health, medical and other services

visitation Info

Visitation for state juvenile facilities is limited to immediate family only. Mother, father, sisters, and brothers are acceptable. The visitation rules are very strict, we suggest reaching out to the staff to get their specific limitations.