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 them have not even been convicted of any sort of a crime,” she said. “Anybody can be charged with a crime. These are people who have not yet been adjudicated as guilty. And they deserve to have humane conditions just like anybody else.”

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