From Los Alamos to the Trinity Test site, the human toll of “nuclear colonization” looms large
Criminal Justice
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Sticker shock
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?
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Will jail oversight be dimmed?
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.
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Hot pursuit
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.
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A new chapter for Dorris Hamilton
Guardianship took away Hamilton’s freedoms. Her son is getting them back.
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‘I wish one day there wouldn’t be no drugs here’
Addiction, resilience and hope in Chimayó.
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The day the war on drugs came to Chimayó
On a September morning in 1999, federal agents descended on the village as part of a nationwide heroin crackdown. The bust changed nothing and everything.
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Dire conditions
Haitian asylum seekers are suffering from inadequate food, dirty water, and poor medical care at the Torrance County Detention Facility.
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A Black life ends in a New Mexico police shooting
A state police officer shot and killed Rodney Applewhite on a barren road south of Albuquerque. A week later, his shattered family still has no information about why, and how, his life ended.