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Solitary Confinement in NM

March 20, 2025
Two men are seated in armchairs facing each other in a studio with a screen displaying "New Mexico in Focus.

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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The Line: Solitary Confinement in New Mexico Prisons

March 8, 2019
1236 Line Solitary Confinement

March 1, 2019 –A recent study finds the rate of prisoners held in solitary confinement in New Mexico is more than double the 4 percent that state officials claim. Gene Grant and the Line opinion panelists discuss the use of solitary confinement, a practice the United Nations has declared is a form of torture and…

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