There is created in the executive branch the "corrections department". The department shall be a cabinet department and consist of, but not be limited to, six divisions as follows:

A. the adult institutions division;

B. the adult probation and parole division;

C. the training academy division;

D. the corrections industries division, which shall have administrative supervision of the management of prison industries in every correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the department. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (10) of Subsection B of Section 9-3-5 NMSA 1978, the director of the corrections industries division shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the secretary of corrections;

E. the administrative services division, which shall be supportive of and responsive to the divisions and shall provide administrative and personnel services to them; and

F. the information technology division.

History: 1978 Comp., § 9-3-3, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 3; 1979, ch. 202, § 2; 1980, ch. 150, § 3; 1981, ch. 73, § 3; 1981, ch. 127, § 16; 1988, ch. 101, § 17; 1991, ch. 219, § 1; 2005, ch. 110, § 2.

Cross references. — For executive cabinet, see 9-1-3 NMSA 1978.

For children, youth and families department, see 9-2A-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.

For law enforcement generally, see Chapter 29 NMSA 1978.

For probation and parole generally, see 31-21-3 to 31-21-26 NMSA 1978.

For correctional institutions generally, see Chapter 33 NMSA 1978.

For powers and duties of the secretary of corrections, see 33-1-6 NMSA 1978.

Compiler's notes. — Laws 1977, ch. 257 abolished the corrections department and the police academy and transferred their property and functions to the criminal justice department. Laws 1979, ch. 202 revived the law enforcement academy.

Laws 1980, ch. 150 renamed the criminal justice department as the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department, transferred the property, personnel and obligations of the criminal justice department to the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department and provided that all references in law to the criminal justice department should be construed to be references to the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department; all references in law to the secretary of criminal justice should be construed to be references to the secretary of corrections and criminal rehabilitation; all references in law to the criminal justice support division or the corrections division of the criminal justice department should be construed to be references to the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department; all references in law to the juvenile institutions bureau of the criminal justice department should be construed to be references to the juvenile facilities division of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department; all references in law to the adult institutions bureau of the criminal justice department should be construed to be references to the adult institutions division of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department and all references in law to the field services bureau of the criminal justice department should be construed to be references to the field services division of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department.

Laws 1981, ch. 73 and ch. 127 renamed the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department as the corrections department. Chapter 73 transferred the property, personnel and obligations of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department to the corrections department and provided that all references in law to the criminal justice department or the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department shall be construed to be references to the corrections department, that all references in law to the secretary of criminal justice or secretary of corrections and criminal rehabilitation shall be construed to be references to the secretary of corrections, that all references in law to the criminal justice support division or the corrections division of the criminal justice department or the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department shall be construed to be references to the corrections department, that all references in law to the juvenile institutions bureau of the criminal justice department or the juvenile facilities division of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department shall be construed to be references to the juvenile facilities division of the corrections department, that all references in law to the adult institutions bureaus of the criminal justice department or the adult institutions division of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department shall be construed to be references to the adult institutions division of the corrections department, and that all references in law to the field services bureau of the criminal justice department or the field services division of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department shall be construed to be references to the field services division of the corrections department.

The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, created the information technology division within the corrections department in Subsection F.

The 1991 amendment, effective July 1, 1991, substituted "training academy division" for "personnel and training division" in Subsection C and inserted "and personnel" near the end of Subsection E.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 81A C.J.S. States § 139.