New Mexico

1. State Policy: New Mexico Corrections Department, Offender Protection Against Abuse and Sexual Misconduct; Reporting Procedures, PREA, October 2016
2. Language:
   1. Inmates shall be screened within 48 hours of arrival at the facility and reassessed 25 days after the inmate’s arrival, for potential vulnerabilities or tendencies of acting out with sexually aggressive behavior.
   2. Inmates will be reassessed thereafter due to a referral, request, incident of sexual abuse, or receipt of additional information that bears upon an inmate’s risk of sexual victimization or abusiveness. Housing and program assignments will be made accordingly.
   3. Transgender and Intersex inmates shall be screened every six months.
   4. In the event of an incident, both the inmate perpetrator and/or inmate victim will be re-screened.[4-4281-2] [§115.41]

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