ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico sent letters to county jails throughout the State of New Mexico, discouraging them from routinely strip searching arrestees without reasonable suspicion that they possess contraband. Despite a…
Over the vigorous dissent of four justices, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit jails from routinely strip searching inmates, even if people are booked into facilities for minor offenses and officials have…
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Today, the ACLU of New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights (RCBR) released the report Outsourcing Responsibility: The Human Cost of Privatized Immigration Detention in Otero County detailing inhumane detention practices in the Otero County Processing…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) filed a second lawsuit against the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD) for failing to implement key reforms in the juvenile justice system. In 2006, CYFD entered…
Sorry folks, a “God Pod” is not the latest Apple product; it is the nickname for a cell block in a correctional facility for religious inmates, usually of the fundamentalist Christian variety. These religiously-themed cell blocks began gaining popularity during…
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