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| Settlement ends double-celling at Grants prison |
| By abqjournal.com- Scott Sandlin |
| Published: 08/17/2016 |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The state has agreed to end double-celling at the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants under a settlement agreement filed in U.S. District Court this month. An inmate at the facility filed documents last December alleging that the Department of Corrections was in violation of a consent decree the state entered in 1991 agreeing to maintain certain standards in the state’s prisons. Attorneys who litigated the underlying case, filed in 1977, investigated the recent claims filed by prisoner Barry Holloway, acting as his own attorney, whose handwritten motions claimed housing two prisoners in a cell designed for one person violated the Duran Consent Decree. He asked the court to find the state in contempt. Read More. |
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