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| Ex-inmate seeks permission to search for ledgers, memos |
| By abqjournal.com- Andy Stiny |
| Published: 11/07/2014 |
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For about two years, the New Mexico Department of Corrections has conducted public tours of its closed Old Main facility at the state penitentiary south of Santa Fe, site of the nation’s bloodiest prison riot in 1980. Now, a former inmate – a convicted murderer – wants permission for a more extensive and invasive tour. He and his lawyer say they need to get into Old Main and the other, active units of the Penitentiary of New Mexico to look for buried or hidden evidence. In recent court documents, former inmate Samuel P. Chavez is making sensational allegations of buried ledgers and harvesting prisoners’ body parts that read like the script for the Robert Redford film “Brubaker,” the dramatized re-telling of a 1967 Arkansas prison scandal involving unmarked prisoner burials, torture, sexual assault and contaminated food. One court filing even mentions the movie. Read More. |
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