2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 31 - Criminal Procedure
Article 26 - Victims of Crime
Section 31-26-11 - Procedures when an inmate or delinquent child escapes; corrections department; children, youth and families department.
A. The corrections department or the children, youth and families department shall immediately notify the sentencing judge or the children's court judge, the district attorney of the judicial district from which the inmate or delinquent child was committed and the probation officer who authored the presentence report when an inmate or delinquent child:
(1) escapes from a correctional facility or juvenile justice facility under the jurisdiction of the corrections department or the children, youth and families department; or
(2) convicted in New Mexico of a capital, first degree or second degree felony and transferred to a facility under the jurisdiction of another state escapes from that facility.
B. The district attorney shall immediately notify any person known to reside in his district who was a victim of the criminal or delinquent offense for which the inmate or delinquent child was committed.
History: Laws 1994, ch. 144, § 11; 1999, ch. 103, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1999 amendment, effective July 1, 1999, inserted "or delinquent child" and "children, youth and families department" in the catchline and throughout the section; in Subsection A inserted "or the children's court judge" in the introductory language and "or juvenile justice facility" in Paragraph (1); and inserted "or delinquent" preceding "offense" in Subsection B.
