Albuquerque New Mexico / Sandia Mountains

APH Serves these New Mexico Correctional Facilities
 
Woman with Cross on CheekNew Mexico Women's Correctional Facility
Grants, NM

NM Women's Recovery Academy
Albuquerque, NM

Metropolitan Detention Center - BCDC
Albuquerque, NM

Torrance County Detention Center
Estancia, NM
We are available to all detention centers that have female inmates searching for a safe and structured home to be released to.  They must be on probation or parole.  We will consider women from out-of-state facilities

Incarceration Facts

  • 2.2 million Americans are behind bars.
  •  1 in every 32 American adults is either incarcerated or on probation or parole.
  •  200,000 women were in prisons and jails in 2005 in the US.
  •  In 1998, NM had 404 women in prison, in 2007 there were 620, a 53% increase over the past 10 years.
  •  The number of women incarcerated has increased at double the rate of men since 1985.
  •  In 2006, 622 women were released back into their communities.
  •  1.5 million children had parents in prison in 1999, an increase of over 500,000 in the ten years prior.
  •  Nationally, 600,000 inmates return to their communities each year.
  •  Statistics show that over 70% will return to prison or jail due to lack of support “on the outside”.
  •  This is a burden of 27.5 billion dollars on taxpaying Americans.
Statistics from NM Corrections Dept, DOJ, Public Safety Performance Project and The Sentencing Project