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Criminal Justice

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured, Your Right To Know

Cruel and Usual

by Elizabeth Flock and Mark Scialla October 13, 2020July 10, 2022

Taos County jail accused of abuse and dysfunction

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured

A virus knows no bars

Avatar photo by Amy Martyn September 10, 2020July 10, 2022

Private prison operator CoreCivic is accused of ignoring a COVID-19 outbreak, putting inmates and the community at risk.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured

Pay up or lockup

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz July 22, 2020July 10, 2022

Housing shortage kept cash-poor parolees behind bars

Posted inCoronavirus, Criminal Justice, Featured, Immigration

“Screaming for help”

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz July 2, 2020January 13, 2023

Imprisoned migrants seeking better prison conditions describe an attack by pepper-spraying guards

Posted inCoronavirus, Criminal Justice, Featured

“We’re sitting ducks”

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz May 27, 2020July 10, 2022

As coronavirus swept through a halfway house, state officials reported nothing

Posted inCoronavirus, Criminal Justice, Featured

The Rise of the Anti-Lockdown Sheriffs

by Maurice Chammah May 22, 2020January 13, 2023

Opposition to stay-at-home orders is the latest example of a history of powerful sheriffs, a history that stretches back to the end of slavery and the settling of the frontier. 

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured

Bars behind?

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz March 23, 2020January 19, 2023

Access to soap is a vital concern for inmates during the COVID-19 outbreak

Posted inCoronavirus, Criminal Justice, Featured

On lockdown

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz March 18, 2020January 19, 2023

Social distancing, recommended to limit the spread of COVID-19, is not an option in ICE detention facilities

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured, Politics

Parole revoked

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz March 4, 2020February 13, 2023

A series of comic mishaps ends in ouster of parole chief

Posted inCriminal Justice, Featured, Politics

Full court pressed

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz February 18, 2020February 13, 2023

The New Mexico Court of Appeals is swamped with backlogged cases, leaving hundreds in limbo.

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