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Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Child Welfare Experts Say New Mexico Can’t Put Kids in Homeless Shelters Just Because It Lacks Other Beds

Avatar photo by Ed Williams December 7, 2022February 16, 2023

An expert report found that New Mexico’s child welfare system has housed foster kids in homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings.

Posted inImmigration

Immigration invoice

Avatar photo by Joshua Bowling November 23, 2022December 9, 2022

The feds are paying millions to detain migrants in an ‘inhumane’ facility that leaks when it rains and ‘smells like feces’

Posted inEnvironment

Fallout from a nuclear past

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

From Los Alamos to the Trinity Test site, the human toll of “nuclear colonization” looms large

Posted inFire

Seeds of healing

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán and photos by Nadav Soroker November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

Mora schoolchildren affected by this year’s wildfire go to the forest to learn about resilience.

Posted inCriminal Justice

Sticker shock

Avatar photo by Joshua Bowling November 3, 2022November 7, 2022

It’s been one year since New Mexico took control of two private prisons, a shift that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Was the move worth it?

Posted inTribal Affairs

Searching on their own

Avatar photo by Vanessa G. Sánchez October 26, 2022December 9, 2022

A Navajo-led search and rescue group looks for missing and murdered Indigenous people — going where no one else will

Posted inEnvironment

The fire and flood next time

Avatar photo by Lindsay Fendt October 21, 2022October 25, 2022

Few communities have solid backup plans to protect from disastrous flames and flooding

Posted inCriminal Justice

Will jail oversight be dimmed?

Avatar photo by Joshua Bowling October 20, 2022October 20, 2022

A proposal to alter the civilian oversight board that guides the Metropolitan Detention Center, New Mexico’s largest jail, is a tough sell for reform advocates.

Posted inCriminal Justice

Hot pursuit

Avatar photo by Joshua Bowling October 13, 2022October 13, 2022

Along the U.S.-Mexico border, Border Patrol agents use high-speed chases to catch suspects. Migrants, U.S. citizens and random bystanders have all died during these pursuits.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

These Foster Kids Need Mental Health Care. New Mexico Is Putting Them in Homeless Shelters.

Avatar photo by Ed Williams, with data analysis by Joel Jacobs, ProPublica and photography by Kitra Cahana, special to ProPublica October 7, 2022February 16, 2023

Youth crisis shelters aren’t set up to deal with foster youth who need intensive mental health treatment. When teens try to harm themselves or others, staff resort to calling 911.

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