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New Mexico Lawyer Fights to End Solitary Confinement
Loaded on March 1, 2021
by Daniel A. Rosen
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2021, page 34
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
New Mexico.
by Daniel A. Rosen
An attorney with a small private practice in Albuquerque has blazed an unconventional path to reforming the use of solitary confinement in New Mexico. According to an October 2020 profile in Rolling Stone magazine, Matthew Coyte has successfully sued local jails over abuses of the practice, ...
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