NM DOC – Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF) – GEO

NM DOC – Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF) – GEO basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 575-392-4055

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at NM DOC – Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF) – GEO located at 6900 W Millen Dr in Hobbs, NM are placed according to their custody level and are incarcerated by a private company contracted by a government agency and are paid a per diem or monthly rate, either for each inmate in the facility or for each bed available. The facility is well-trained and well-staffed. This doesn't come without some controversy as the "price of incarceration" is big business and critics claim there is a monetary benefit to keeping people locked up. The flip side is this facility undergoes rigorous inspections and are some of the be maintained in the US.

For inmates that show a willingness to learn new things, there are educational and vocational training programs here that will prepare them for a successful reentry when released.

NM DOC – Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF) – GEO – Offender Family Guidebook

BACKGROUND: Since 1993 the Lea County Correctional Facility has provided correctional services on behalf of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. The site is located on land that was originally a World War II B-17 Training Base.

SCOPE OF WORK: The facility’s housing areas consist of a double-celled, medium security unit and a single-celled, administrative segregation unit. The contract award was for the design, construction, finance, and operation of the facility with operations to begin in the Second Quarter 1998, receiving its first inmates on May 15, 1998. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is responsible for providing facility administration, fiscal management, personnel and training, programs and recreation, sanitation and hygiene, volunteer and religious programs, security, safety and control, classification, education, inmate work programs, counseling and mental health services, food services, commissary, discipline and grievances, libraries and 60,000 sq. ft. of industries area. The facility currently operates a state industry program.

FACILITY DESCRIPTION: The 404,303 sq. ft. facility is located on an 80-acre site inside a double-fenced security perimeter that utilizes microwave intrusion detection. The facility complex consists of an administration/visitation building, an education/library building, an intake-release and medical complex, an industries building, four double-celled medium-security housing buildings, one double-celled, maximum-security housing building, and two gymnasiums.

visitation Info

NM DOC – Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF) – GEO – Visitation

In order to visit an inmate, you must be on the approved visitation list.

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