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Three inmates have been mistakenly released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the month of July, according to Bernalillo County officials.
Inmates were brutally butchered, dismembered, burned alive with torches and hung up in the cell house for display. Although taking many years, this riot eventually led to several changes in New Mexico's prison system, including a modern inmate classification system modeled after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons , as well as the closing of the ...
Construction was completed in 2002, to replace the overcrowded, in-town county jail near the courthouse. It is the county’s largest public facility, and single greatest consumer of electricity, using, for example, 12,627,000 kilowatts in 2012, at a cost of $981,563.
When the inmates refused to return to their cells, the tower guards opened fire, killing one inmate and injuring five others. [10] In the report following the riot, the prison authorities were blamed for lack of experience, and failure to understand how to control a prison population. [11] The penitentiary's defunct gas chamber.
Oct. 25—An officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center is accused of orchestrating attacks in the shower on two mentally ill inmates and spraying one man's genitals with mace ...
Nov. 14—Officials say the Santa Fe Penitentiary is facing a staff vacancy rate of more than 40%, much higher than that of the Metropolitan Detention Center. That hasn't stopped the state ...
Testing for COVID-19 revealed the first case of infection on March 22 in Cook County Jail, Chicago. 10% of the 5,000 inmates were released as a cautionary measure, but the number of infections had risen to 134 by March 30. Fifteen inmates and eleven staff have tested positive at other facilities in the state, with at least 80 waiting for test ...
The Albuquerque Police Department and New Mexico State Police have arrested 126 and 49 people, respectively, on new charges and warrants. The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office said it is going to ...