Saturday, October 24, 2015

The New Mexico Prison System & the Gun Violence Epidemic

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Broken Culture Review.....The New Mexico Prison System & the Gun Violence Epidemic....October 2015

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"The Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) is a men's maximum-security prison located in unincorporated Santa Fe County, 15 miles (24 km) south of central Santa Fe, on New Mexico State Road 14.[1][2] It is operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department......The complex consists of three separate facilities. The facilities are now referred to as Level V (opened 1985), Level VI (opened 1985) and Level II (opened 1990) for the minimum restrict facility, based upon the New Mexico adaptation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons system for inmate classification and restriction. The regular daily population is about 790 inmates, whose average age is 32......The Level VI Supermax site contains New Mexico's Death Row. This is where Terry Clark was executed in 2001. He remains, as of 2014, the only execution in New Mexico since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976."......https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitentiary_of_New_Mexico

"New Mexico has 33 counties.According to the latest jail census taken in 2006, there are 32 jail facilities and 8,877 inmates. There are no jail standards or inspection programs in the state..As of December 31, 2013, the New Mexico prison population was 6,849.....The New Mexico Corrections Department operates six state facilities and four private prisons. The Department's operating budget for FY2013 was approximately $288 million with 2,448 full time employees....The New Mexico Corrections Department, Probation & Parole Division supervised over 19,000 offenders during 2013."......http://nicic.gov/statestats/

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October 2015

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