Agreement on NM probation, parole reforms seems stuck in the …
WEBBy Jeff Proctor, New Mexico In Depth | July 31, 2019. Lawmakers and prosecutors appear as far apart as ever on reform proposals for New Mexico’s probation and parole systems, despite Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham admonishing them to find common ground in April. That’s when the first-term Democratic governor vetoed a reform bill — with ...
Native American youth face higher suicide risk
WEBMay 26, 2015 · An analysis by New Mexico In Depth found that two databases maintained by separate state agencies have differing totals for Native American youth suicides. According to New Mexico vital statistics data kept by the state Health Department, 201 Native Americans between the ages of 9 and 24 died by suicide in New Mexico between 1999 and 2013, the ...
A year in solitary: ‘I didn’t want to lose it’ - New Mexico In Depth
WEBMar 2, 2017 · The 40-year-old former oil field laborer can’t bring to mind why he’s so consistent. But his wife, Nakrista Saiz, has the answer: “I’ve asked him, too. That’s how many steps he could take in the cell.”. In 2013 and 2014, Saiz spent a year in solitary confinement at Santa Fe’s Penitentiary of New Mexico trying not to lose his mind.
Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history
WEBJul 7, 2014 · But the largest spill of radioactive material in the United States happened three and half months after Three Mile Island and several thousands of miles west of Pennsylvania. July 16 will mark the 35th anniversary of the day in 1979 when a dam on the Navajo Nation near Church Rock, N.M., broke at an …
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A dam's 'painful' history - New Mexico In Depth
WEBAug 7, 2013 · Cochiti Dam is one of the 10 largest earthen dams in the United States. It contains more than 65 million cubic feet of earth and rock, stretches more than five miles across, and rises about 250 feet above the Rio Grande. Driving past the dam on my way to check out the reservoir’s waters I was reminded of a talk the Pueblo of Cochiti’s Regis ...
New Mexico AG greenlights new task force, creates online portal …
WEBThis reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit and Transgender People (MMIWG2T). Attorney General Raúl Torrez plans to establish a task force focused on the disproportionate rates at which Indigenous people experience violence and go missing, the New Mexico ...
A win by two or more challengers would give women first-ever …
WEBSep 19, 2018 · The notion struck Megan Duffy at an event she attended with several other women — and it struck her hard. It was Aug. 18. The gathering marked the anniversary of a seismic change to the U.S. Constitution: Passage of the 19th Amendment, more commonly known as women’s suffrage. “Women have only been able to vote […]
Dummy bills obscure how Legislature works - New Mexico In Depth
WEBFeb 15, 2018 · Lawmakers sometimes use “dummy” bills at the end of each legislative session to resurrect dead bills, to push through eleventh-hour measures or to respond to emergencies. But even veteran observers of New Mexico’s legislative process can find that “dummy” bills obscure an already opaque process. “Dummy” bills are usually—but not always—vehicles state lawmakers use after […]
A win for New Mexico’s vulnerable population
WEBFeb 18, 2022 · New Mexico lawmakers made consequential changes for the state’s most vulnerable people during the short 30-day legislative session this year, made possible by a tidal wave of cash. Top of the list of consequential bills is the big boost in teacher pay. Lawmakers bumped salary minimums for Level 1, 2, …