A former inmate at Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Clayton filed a civil suit on Tuesday alleging that correctional officers at the facility attacked, abused, sexually assaulted him and made a racist remark that made him fear for his life last year. A lawyer for the New Mexico Prison and Jail Project, a nonprofit […]
An advocacy group for prisoners’ rights has filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate, who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of police
Advocates for prisoners' rights have filed a civil rights lawsuit against state corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of police.