Posts Tagged Correctional systems

Judge to Bernalillo County: Fix jail conditions

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered New Mexico’s largest county to prepare a plan to bring the jail population down and to take steps to improve conditions.

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Trial for NM accused of killing dad is pushed back

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — The trial for an Albuquerque teenager accused of killing his father on a November 2010 hunting trip in the Gila National Forest has been pushed back.

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Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation’s highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.

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