{"id":46628,"date":"2025-03-20T15:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=46628"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:34:34","slug":"solitary-confinement-in-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/solitary-confinement-in-nm\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitary Confinement in NM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>3.21.25 <\/strong>\u2013<strong> <\/strong>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.&nbsp; Steven Robert Allen, an attorney and director of the New Mexico Prison and Jail Project, represented Chavez. 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