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Solitary Confinement in NM

March 20, 2025
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3.21.25 – Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered Socorro County to pay $2 million to Jessie Chavez, a man who accused jail guards and officials of essentially torturing him in solitary confinement during two stints of incarceration in 2022 and 2023.  Steven Robert Allen, an attorney and director of the New Mexico Prison and…

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Immigration Lawyer, Advocate Call for End to State Contracts with ICE

March 20, 2025
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3.21.25 – Last week, the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced agents arrested 48 people in New Mexico it says were in the country illegally. The identities and whereabouts of those 48 remain unknown, as ICE officials have since reported that an undisclosed number of those detained have been sent back to their…

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