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An internet outage that began Thursday afternoon was resolved Friday evening at the Bernalillo County jail. The Metropolitan Detention Center had stopped releasing people from the jail during the outage.

People incarcerated in New Mexico have limited access to medication-assisted treatment for Opioid Use Disorder. A bill expected to be introduced in the upcoming legislative session would change that by making it state law for all corrections facilities in the state to consistently provide it. Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center Dr. Nathan Birnbaum treats patients returning home from prison and jail and has been working to get the bill in front of lawmakers.

Many New Mexicans are being told to stay at home and distance themselves from others to minimize the cases of COVID-19 in the state. But that’s not an…

Gordon Bernell Charter School fills a gap in New Mexico’s education system, helping adults in jail or who have previously been incarcerated to build the…

State lawmakers just passed restrictions on solitary confinement, the first of their kind in the state. If Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs them into…

New Mexico has the second-highest recidivism rate in the country, with half of its former inmates landing back behind prison bars within three years. To…

Advocates around the country have been working to limit the use of solitary confinement in jails and prisons. The New Mexico Legislature passed a bill…

President Trump’s administration this month began publishing a weekly report of local and state law enforcement agencies that have refused to detain…

The Santa Fe Juvenile Justice Board is hearing an update on its budget Thursday. The city plans to continue directing funds towards programs that aim to…

There are 13 federal prisons around the United States that are run by private companies. One of them is in New Mexico. And today the Department of Justice…