Press Releases
2026
- Corrections Department surpasses adult education goal for fourth consecutive year.
- Food Network champion instructs culinary program at State Penitentiary
- Corrections adds electronic option for inmate deposits
- Corrections work crew discovers human remains
- First electrical vocational program cohort graduates
- Corrections Department implements the Atlas digital platform
2025
- Prison commissary costs plummet under state management
- NMCD surpasses high school equivalency goals for third year
- NM becomes among 1st states to train peer support workers in prisons
- NMCD to host virtual town hall on Lea County Correctional Facility closure
- NMCD finalizes shift to state-run prison system
- Bill reforming good time credit signed into law
- Bill reforming probation and parole good time credit advances to governor’s desk
- Albuquerque drug and gun bust results in multiple arrests
- Inmates discover loaded firearms during routine I-25 trash pickup
- Inmate work crew finds firearm along Interstate 40
- Inmates find fourth gun this year on highway cleanup detail
2024
- N.M. Corrections budget bolsters recruitment, reentry services
- Operation ‘Clean Sweep’ catches 12 fugitives in Santa Fe County
- Grand Opening of Old Gumby’s Country Store
- NMCD Launches HVAC Program
- NMCD News Release Breaking Bad Habits
- NMCD hits new heights in high school equivalency goals
- Inmates earn Class A CDL in pioneering program
- “Be Pro, Be Proud” tour coming to NMCD facilities
- NMCD launches new CDL license program
- Expanded Wildfire Donation Locations
- New Mexico Corrections Department to launch tablets in prison facilities
- Local celebrity chef conducts vocational culinary classes for inmates
- NMCD approves UNM for Prison Education Program
- NMCD collaborates with UNM to offer unique learning opportunity
- Inmates build bicycles for Santa Rosa Middle School students
- NMCD re-launches heavy equipment operator program
- NMCD to launch automotive technology certificate program
- NMCD Celebrates graduation of 11 inmates
- NMCD Launches Veterans Program in Collaboration with Veterans Affairs
- Roswell Correctional Center celebrates inmate education achievements
- Wanted Fugitive Accused of Molesting Girl Arrested in NE Albuquerque