Penitentiary of New Mexico

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The Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) is a New Mexico state prison located fifteen miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico on Highway 14. The complex consists of three separate facilities. The facilities are now referred to as Level V, Level VI and Level II for the minimum restrict facility, based upon the New Mexico adaptation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons system for inmate classification and restriction.

The Level VI Supermax site contains New Mexico's Death Row, and is the site of the only State execution since 1960, of Terry Clark.

The recent implementation of the Level System within the New Mexico Corrections Department requires that inmates who cannot be managed in general population, or cannot function in general population due to criteria established by policy, will be separated from the general population. Management of such inmates will be based upon behaviorally based step programs, in which increased privileges are granted for inmates who demonstrate appropriate behavior for a specified period of time.

The penitentiary site also includes the now-abandoned "Old Pen," the site of the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot of 1980. Systemic reforms after the riot and the Duran v. King consent decree, including implementation of the Bureau Classification System under Cabinet Secretary Joe Williams, led to the modern New Mexico prison system.