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Inmates were brutally butchered, dismembered, burned alive with torches and hung up in the cell house for display. Although taking many years, this riot eventually led to several changes in New Mexico's prison system, including a modern inmate classification system modeled after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons , as well as the closing of the ...
Three inmates have been mistakenly released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the month of July, according to Bernalillo County officials.
An MDC is considered to be an administrative facility, as defined by the Bureau of Prisons: Administrative facilities are institutions with special missions, such as the detention of pretrial offenders; the treatment of inmates with serious or chronic medical problems; or the containment of extremely dangerous, violent, or escape-prone inmates.
Persons being held for trial at the Metropolitan Court, or convicted of misdemeanors and serving sentences under 12 months, are incarcerated in the county jail facility, the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), about 10 miles west of Albuquerque, on a rural mesa.
A 26-year-old man died at MDC in January, a 23-year-old woman died in an ... Sep. 19—The Metropolitan Detention Center is the biggest county jail in the state of New Mexico, with an average ...
Jan. 31—An Albuquerque mother is looking for answers after her 26-year-old son died while behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center over the weekend. Pete Salazar was the 28th person to ...
A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population.
In 2010, an FBI investigation uncovered a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin, marijuana, Percocet, and Xanax to an inmate at MDC Guaynabo. Several conspirators, led by Juan Rios-Ortiz, also attempted to provide cellular telephones, chargers, and SIM cards to an inmate of MDC. Rios-Ortiz worked for a company that had a contract to supply ...