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Criminal Justice

Posted inCriminal Justice

Sticker shock

Avatar photo by Joshua Bowling November 3, 2022August 9, 2023

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 inCriminal Justice

Will jail oversight be dimmed?

Avatar photo by Joshua Bowling October 20, 2022August 9, 2023

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 inFeatured

Off guard

Avatar photo by Joshua Bowling August 11, 2022April 13, 2023

A crisis looms at New Mexico’s largest jail, plagued by understaffing — and unsafe conditions

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

A new chapter for Dorris Hamilton

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi and Don J. Usner February 2, 2022February 16, 2023

Guardianship took away Hamilton’s freedoms. Her son is getting them back.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured

‘I wish one day there wouldn’t be no drugs here’

Avatar photo by Don J. Usner December 1, 2021January 12, 2023

Addiction, resilience and hope in Chimayó.

Posted inFeatured

The day the war on drugs came to Chimayó

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán November 30, 2021January 12, 2023

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.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured, Immigration, Politics, Your Right To Know

Dire conditions

Avatar photo by Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi November 24, 2021July 10, 2022

Haitian asylum seekers are suffering from inadequate food, dirty water, and poor medical care at the Torrance County Detention Facility.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured, Your Right To Know

A Black life ends in a New Mexico police shooting

Avatar photo by Dillon Bergin November 25, 2020July 10, 2022

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.

Posted inCoronavirus, Criminal Justice, Featured

From detention to deliverance

Avatar photo by Julia Sclafani October 21, 2020July 10, 2022

Teens who’ve been incarcerated need help to change their lives. The Adobe Program gives them the tools.

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