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Education & Rehabilitation

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

• New Mexico sets aside executions for final 2 inmates on death row
  
  SANTA FE, New Mexico - The New Mexico Supreme Court on Friday set aside the death penalty for the final two inmates awaiting execution after the state's 2009 repeal of capital punishment....[more]
  KVIA, Friday, June 28, 2019
  
  

Gangs in Prison

• Report shows Las Cruces inmate stabbed 43 times Autopsy: Las Cruces inmate was stabbed more than 40 times in gang-related attack
  
  LAS CRCUES, N.M. (AP) — An inmate killed in a gang-related attack at a Las Cruces state prison was stabbed more than 40 times, according to an autopsy report released this week.

  The Las Cruces Sun-News reported (http://bit.ly/1xoHzFV) Friday that the state Office of the Medical Investigator found 34-year-old Javier Enrique Molina suffered 43 stab wounds and five other cuts....[more]

  Associated Press, Sunday, June 8, 2014
  
  
• Suspect In Cold Case Murder Now Behind Bars
  
  Police said George may have been a member of the Aryan Brotherhood and was associated with Dally...[more]
  KOAT.com, Thursday, May 10, 2007
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• What Happens When A City Decides to Offer Addicts Services, Not Prison Sentences?
  
  For decades, the United States has tried to punish and shame people out of drug addiction with courts, jails and criminal records. It has been massively unsuccessful, as the nationwide rise in opiate addiction over the last few years demonstrates, and few people are more aware of its failure than the police officers tasked with arresting addicts....[more]
  The Nation, Thursday, October 16, 2014
  
  
• NM not planning larger women’s prison
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration isn’t looking to expand the state women’s prison despite requesting proposals from private prison contractors for a facility with up to 850 beds, according to a Corrections Department official....[more]
  Associated Press, Thursday, April 10, 2014
  
  
• New Mexico prisoner segregation under review
  
  Corrections Secretary Gregg Marcantel outlined his plan Friday before a legislative committee as state and county officials respond to a recent report that criticized New Mexico's widespread use of solitary confinement in prisons and jails....[more]
  Associated Press, Sunday, November 24, 2013
  
  
• State of New Mexico says it doesn't have required DNA samples for 138 prisoners
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The state Department of Corrections has determined that DNA wasn't collected as required from numerous state prison inmates, a lapse that hinders investigations into unsolved crimes....[more]
  Associated Press, Thursday, June 6, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

Prison Life & Culture

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

Suicides in Prison

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Former New Mexico Probation Officer Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault and False Statements Charges
  
  ALBUQUERQUE – Gordon Chavez, 35, a former probation officer with the New Mexico Department of Corrections Division of Probation and Parole, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to charges related to the sexual assault of a probationer whom he supervised. Chavez pleaded guilty to one count of violating the victim’s right to bodily integrity when he touched her against her will. Chavez also pleaded guilty to one count of making material false statements to the FBI when he denied both inappropriately touching females whom he supervised and asking for naked photos of them.

  According to court documents, Ch...[more]

  US Department of Justice, Tuesday, September 3, 2013