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Lawsuit Accuses New Mexico Guards of Beating and Abusing Prisoner During Shakedown
Loaded on May 24, 2023
by Jo Ellen Nott
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
New Mexico.
by Jo Ellen Nott
A civil rights complaint filed by attorney Mallory Gagon of the New Mexico Prison and Jail Project in April 2023 alleges that five Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility guards, two of them with rank, entered the cell of prisoner Carl Berry and “sexually abused …
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