New Mexico Corrections Department records, 1884-[ongoing].

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New Mexico Corrections Department records, 1884-[ongoing].

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Summary: As of 1997 collection consists of the records of the New Mexico Penitentiary, the Corrections Department and its predecessors (1884-1992). Includes annual and other reports, administrative correspondence and files, manuals, publications, client files, and press releases. Penitentiary records include registers of prisoners, visitors, and parolees; annual reports; correspondence; case files; conduct records; medical records; account books; and photographs of inmates indexed by name and prisoner number. Also within the collection are Parole Board records (hearings, case files, annual reports); proceedings of the Duran vs. Anaya legal case; interview transcripts from 1983 concerning the 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot; and issues of "Enchanted News", the State Penitentiary's magazine.

<112.5> linear.

New Mexico State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7405800

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New Mexico. Corrections and Criminal Rehabilitation Dept.

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New Mexico. Corrections Dept.

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The New Mexico Penitentiary was established in 1884 (1884 NM Laws, Chp. 59, Sec. 1-19). In 1969 the Corrections Act created the Department of Corrections, with the following four divisions: Adult Institutions, Juvenile Institutions and Parole, Adult Probation and Parole, and Other Services (1969 NM Laws, Chp. 226, Sec. 1-21). In 1977 a legislative act changed the name of the Department to the Corrections Division and placed the Division within the newly established Criminal Justice Department (1...

New Mexico. Corrections Division

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New Mexico. Criminal Justice Dept.

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New Mexico. Corrections and Rehabilitation Dept.

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New Mexico. Parole Board

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New Mexico State Penitentiary

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