Capacity: 600
Client: New Mexico Corrections Department
Accreditations:
The Guadalupe County Correctional Facility is a company-owned facility that is managed and operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department under a lease agreement with GEO.
The 191,400 square foot, ACA-compliant facility is located inside a double-fenced security perimeter that utilizes microwave intrusion detection and 24- hour vehicle patrol. The facility complex consists of an administration/visitation building; education and library complex; kitchen, laundry, and dining building; industries building; intake, release, and medical building; two medium security housing buildings; a gymnasium; family visitation units; fire substation; and maintenance building. Offenders are housed in a double-celled medium security unit, a county detention area, and a single-celled Restrictive Housing unit.
Under the previous contract, the facility was awarded initial accreditation by the ACA in 2001 and was re-accredited in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 with a score of 100%. The facility’s medical unit was accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), under the previous contract, in 2005 and re-accredited in 2008.