Leaked emails detail a medical staffing crisis that’s worsening at MDC outside Albuquerque By: Austin Fisher Inmates are people, and they deserve humane conditions, said attorney Alexandra Freedman Smith, who is representing people jailed at MDC. They have constitutional rights to humane treatment, too, she added. “These are people who are in jail, many of […]

Jail is hemorrhaging medical staff, doesn’t have a doctor, court documents show Bernalillo County farmed out jail medical care to a corporation with a long history of lawsuits alleging abuse and neglect in NM and beyond By: Austin Fisher […] The longtime staff shortage reached a crisis point that is putting inmates in danger, said […]