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| Lawsuit prompts prison changes |
| By krqe.com - Celina Westervelt |
| Published: 05/22/2012 |
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) - Changes in prison security are in the making following a lawsuit that accused a guard of raping an inmate and a warden of covering it up by trying to derail an FBI investigation The allegations were made public last Tuesday. Now the State Secretary of Corrections addressed the situation. "It will not, underscore, will not be tolerated in the NM Corrections Department," said Secretary Gregg Marcantel. The secretary said he's disturbed by the allegations. In them a former inmate says he was raped repeatedly last year by Captain Kenneth Carrejo while he was locked up at the Central Correction Facility in Los Lunas last year. The suit also alleges that the then-warden Anthony Romero tried to cover it up. Investigators believe he got tipped off from someone in the corrections department that an undercover FBI agent was coming in to investigate. Marcantel said -true or not- changes will be made. "I could perceive, for example, having next to every telephone in every prison a 1-800 number to rape crisis center and a 1-800 number to Crimestoppers," he explained. Read More. |
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