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Lea County Correctional Center

The Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF) was a medium-security prison for men located four miles north-west of Hobbs, New Mexico, opened in 1998 on 60 acres of the former Hobbs Army Airfield, now adjacent to the Lea County Regional Airport.The facility housed 1200 state inmates of the New Mexico Corrections Department, and was operated by the private GEO Group under a contract administered through the county.

Notable inmates
• Joel Patrick Courtney (born 1966) – sentenced for kidnapping, rape, and murder of Brooke Wilberger (Corvallis, Oregon, USA) on May 25, 2004. Death sentence commuted to life, without parole (convicted Sept. 21, 2009). • Nehemiah Griego (born 1997) – perpetrator of the 2013 South Valley homicides • Nathaniel Jouett (born 2001) – perpetrator of the Clovis library shootingDavid Parker Ray (1939–2002) – abductor and possible serial killer; died at LCCF ==References==
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