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Pretrial Detention Study & New Media Outlet Hopes to be a Big Re-‘Source’ for News Consumers

A COVID-safe control room at work taping an episode of New Mexico in Focus.

NMiF senior producer Matt Grubs talks about New Mexico’s pretrial detention conundrum with the director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, Artie Pepin. The office recently asked UNM social researchers to evaluate the 2nd Judicial District Court’s (Bernalillo County) effectiveness at keeping the right people free until trial, an innocence-before-guilt approach reinforced with a…

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