February 2, 1980, New Mexico and the nation watched in horror as this prison turned from an organized correctional facility ...

A Northern New Mexico animal shelter is expanding a dog training program at the state penitentiary, after discovering black ...

The old New Mexico State Penitentiary, site of a deadly 1980 riot, remains a chilling reminder of past horrors, with eerie occurrences suggesting the spirits of those who perished may still linger.

An Ohio man was sentenced to 29 years in the New Mexico Department of Corrections for a violent robbery that happened in ...

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Now I can't sleep right,” says one former inmate of Doña Ana County Detention Center. “They treated us like guinea pigs for ...

LOS LUNAS, N.M. (KRQE) – For the third year in a row, the state is seeing more inmates improving themselves while in prison by going back to school. “I got my [GED] in December,” said Jacob Velasquez, ...

LOS LUNAS — Richard Lewis will be released from prison in two weeks after a four-year bid for forging treasury bonds. In that time, he’s earned nearly half of the credits he needs for a college degree ...

A group of Buddhist monks from Nepal visited inmates at the Otero County Prison Facility recently. The prison says that this was the monks' first ever visit to a U.S. prison. They met with inmates who ...