Prison Systems (GOVT)
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ARIZONA
Prisons Arizona (List)
Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC)
https //corrections az gov/
Articles (AZ)
Phoenix New Times
2017/07/17 DOC May Face $2.1 Million in Fines as Inmates Bake Waiting for Medical Care. By Antonia
Noori Farzan
https //www phoenixnewtimes com/news/arizona-doc-facing-21-millions-in-fines-over-inmate-health-
care-lawsuit-9496694
NEW MEXICO
Prisons New Mexico (List)
Bernalillo County Metro Detention Center
Cibola County Correctional Center
Guadalupe County Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa
Lea County Corrections Center
Lincoln County Detention Center
Luna County Detention Center
New Mexico Department of Corrections
Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility in Clayton
Otero County Prison
10 Mcgregor Range Rd, Chaparral, NM 88081
San Juan County Government and Juvenile Probation
851 Andrea Dr., Farmington, NM 87401
Sandoval County Detention Center
Santa Fe County Corrections
Torrance County Detention
Articles-NM
Albuquerque Journal
2015/10/03 Shortage of guards a threat to New Mexico prisons. By Dan Boyd.
https //www abqjournal com/653912/shortage-of-guards-a-threat-to-new-mexico-prisons html
JRSA
New Mexico - Mixing juveniles with adults
http //www jrsa org/pubs/reports/sjsreport/new_mexico html
PBS
2018/01/27 New Mexico holds hundreds of people in prison past their release date.
https //www pbs org/newshour/nation/new-mexico-holds-hundreds-of-people-in-prison-past-their-release-
date
Santa Fe New Mexican
2016/06/28 Corizon [Correctional Healthcare] paid $4.5M to settle inmate lawsuits. By Phaedra Haywood
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/corizon-paid-m-to-settle-inmate-
lawsuits/article_70013e63-6133-5468-b6e0-2bdb91ed5a3d.html
Excerpt: Corizon Correctional Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit provider of inmate medical services,
paid out more than $4.5 million to settle lawsuits brought by New Mexico inmates from 2007 until the end of
May, when it lost its contract with the state, according to figures released by the company on Tuesday.
The information was limited to a spreadsheet with the dollar amounts of payouts made to what appears to
be 59 different plaintiffs and the name of the prison facility where the claims originated. Most of the payouts
appear to be related to a former Corizon doctor, Mark E. Walden, who was accused in lawsuits of sexually
abusing dozens of inmates in 2011 and 2012 at the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa and
the Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility in Clayton
https //www santafenewmexican com/news/local_news/corizon-paid-m-to-settle-inmate-
lawsuits/article_70013e63-6133-5468-b6e0-2bdb91ed5a3d html
There is a close link between police officers and prisons. Prisoners have established organized crime
networks both inside and outside prisons. There can be intolerable environments and personnel in prisons.
Prison riots explode off and on over the years for various reasons, including abuse of inmates, attempts at
escaping and gang rivalries. Various lawsuits involving abuse of inmates also occur in an ongoing manner.
Note medically related issues, including corporations involved in medical care to prisons. Also pay attention
to food service corporations providing food services to prisons, and their activities outside the prison system
as well. The ACLU is a big player in the prison lawsuit world. Although prison conditions can be and are
often beyond difficult, with severe human rights abuses of every kind imaginable, we also need to pay
attention to Mexican cartels and others tweaking the legal system against prisons. In addition, we need to
remember we almost only hear about the bad and hardly the good that gets done by prisons and their
workers. Small humanistic touches surely happen in this world just like anywhere else, with little thanks or
attention given to those who try. Most of us can imagine how bleak it is to be left in places like these and
shudder at the thought. Some people suggest prisons don’t work. Others indicate they are terribly
overcrowded. Yet others suggest that corporations are handling them, with concomitant corruption there.
Closely tied to prison issues are those involving the ethics of mandatory isolation and death sentencing.
Some prisoners are so violent with others they have to be kept to themselves, but it is the opinion of this
website that complete isolation is fully abusive and should not happen. People should not be left in full
isolation cells completely away from human contact; it is the opinion of this website that it constitutes
torture and should not be permitted.
Updates: 2021/10/19 editing; 2021/07/10 some excessive bold areas removed; 2019/09/06 added article New Mexico sfnm-2016/06/28 on corizon. Also Arizona phx new times-
2017.
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DOC May Face $2.1 Million in Fines as Inmates Bake Waiting for Medical
Care-Phx New Tiimes-2017/07/17
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Articles (NM)
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Corizon [Correctional Healthcare] paid $4.5M to settle inmate lawsuits.
Santa Fe New Mexican-2016/06/28
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Shortage of guards a threat to New Mexico prisons. Alb Journal-
2015/10/03
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Mixing juveniles with adults. JRSANew Mexico -
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New Mexico holds hundreds of people in prison past their release date.
PBS-2018/01/27
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