The New Mexico Corrections Department has announced its decision to close the privately operated Lea County Correctional Facility by June 30, 2025. This announcement comes after GEO Group Inc.'s ...

Prison closures generally stir hand-wringing among local government officials over the loss of jobs. But there has been a noticeable lack of panic in southeastern New Mexico’s Lea County, where a ...

The New Mexico Corrections Department says it will stop using the Lea County Correctional Facility by June 30 after its private owner, The GEO Group, decided to not renew its contract with […] ...

but the company running it has expressed interest to the federal government in converting it into an immigration detention center. The Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs is owned and ...

The owners of the Lea County Correctional Facility near Hobbs are shutting down the medium-security prison after 27 years, laying off more than 200 employees by the end of June while the state ...

LEA COUNTY, NM (KCBD) - Two women have been arrested, charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into the Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico. 25-year-old Mirakel Carter and ...

LEA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Lea County Sheriff’s Office said they captured a 15-year-old who had escaped the Lea County Detention Center Thursday ... escape from a jail, aggravated burglary ...

Asked if the state prison system has room in other facilities to house those inmates if the Lea County Correctional Facility became an ICE detention center, Roembach said she couldn’t comment on ...