Lea County Correctional Facility

Effective immediately, all visitation is suspended at Lea County Correctional Facility through the end of April 2020.

This includes the suspension of contact, non-contact, and attorney visits in all prison facilities.

For questions regarding NMCD’s response to COVID-19, please contact Public Information Officer Eric Harrison at 505-382-3541 or email [email protected].

For information regarding NMCD’s response to COVID-19, click here https://cd.nm.gov/covid-19-updates. 

For a detailed visiting schedule click here.

General Information

All visitors must submit a Visitor Application in advance, then they must be added to an inmate's visiting list before visitation is permitted. All approved visitors that are 16 years of age and older must surrender a valid picture ID upon entering the facility for visiting.

An Inmate may be limited to three visitors (six years of age and older) and limited to three children (five years of age or younger) at any one time if space permits. The length of the visit may be limited only by the visit schedule and space availability. 

Visitors are authorized to enter visiting areas with a combined total of $30.00 in loose change for use in vending machines. Visitors with infants will be permitted to enter with or have access to: 

• two plastic bottles or a sip-cup
• three diapers
• a blanket
• baby wipes
• factory sealed baby food 
• one plastic baby spoon
• a pacifier
• baby carrier

Visitors are not permitted to enter the visiting area with hats, sunglasses (unless prescription), pagers, cell-phones, any electronic device not associated with an immediate medical health condition, tobacco items of any kind, matches or lighters, or any device, object, or substance whether animate or inanimate that is capable of causing injury or fear of injury.

For a complete list of rules, click here.

Dress Code

All visitors must be appropriately attired in accordance with policy before entering any New Mexico Correctional Facility. Visitors are subject to denial of visiting privilege for that day if their attire is not in accordance with this policy.

Male Visitors: 

• Trousers and a shirt with sleeves must be worn at all times. Plain white undershirts or muscle, "A" shirts are not allowed when used as an outer garment
• Restricted clothing colors will depend on the facility inmate uniform code
• Shorts, beach-type shorts, or cut-offs will not be worn
• Tank-Tops are not allowed
• Undergarments shall be worn, but not visible through outer clothing
• Footwear must be worn at all times. Beach type thongs, flip-flop slippers, and steel-toed boots or shoes are not permitted. Open-toed shoes are allowed
• No hats, scarves, bandanas, or other types of headbands will be brought into the institution or worn in the Visiting Room
• Sweat clothes or athletic (warm-up) clothes may be worn, with the exception of shorts
• Skintight clothing or spandex is not permitted

Female Visitors:

• Dresses, skirts, or pants must be worn
• Skirts or dresses with a slit higher than mid-thigh are not acceptable
• Skirts or dresses that are more than three inches above the knee are not acceptable
• Shorts, cut-offs and beach-type shorts are not acceptable
• Sweat clothes or athletic (warm-up) clothes may be worn, with the exception of shorts
• Skintight clothing or spandex is not permitted
• Undergarments must be worn, including brassieres, but must not be visible through outer clothing
• Tank top blouses, spaghetti straps, tube tops, halter-tops, or spandex or spandex-like pants are not acceptable, nor is any type of see-through clothing
• Clothing must not be see-through, expose cleavage, the midriff, shoulders or any part of the breast or upper thigh
• No hats, scarves, bandanas, or other types of headbands will be brought into the institution or permitted in the Visiting Room
• No bathing suits will be worn as an outer garment
• Footwear must be worn at all times. Beach type thongs, flip-flops, slippers, and steel-toed boots or shoes are not permitted. Open-toed shoes are allowed

Inmates at the Lea County Correctional Facility can’t receive incoming calls, but they do have access to phones during daytime hours for outgoing calls. For complete details on how to call an inmate in New Mexico, please click here.

If you are interested in a career with the Geo Group and would like to work at the Lea County Correctional Facility, you can find out more information by clicking here.