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New Mexico Women's Correctional Facility

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Background

The Northwest New Mexico Correctional Facility (NNMCF), formerly the New Mexico Women's Correctional Facility (NMWCF), is a privately owned prison for men, located in Grants, Cibola County, New Mexico. The prison is owned by CoreCivic and operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department. It opened in 1989 as the first privatized women's prison in the U.S. In late 2015 state officials announced a plan to transfer all female inmates out of the facility, and to consolidate New Mexico's estimated population of 1200 sex offenders here. In August 2016 it was renamed as Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center.

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Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1989

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

CoreCivic

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1989

Region

NM

Security level

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.

Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Contact & address

1700 Historic Highway 66, Grants 87020

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Data completeness

30%

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