Inmates and guards alike are at risk. So is the public, because the chance of escape is relatively high. The price of incarcerating thousands of people in local jails is also high. If you want to make a case that New Mexico jails are in trouble, take a look around the state.
Nothing sounds like a jail door closing.
Whether it is the boom of a hollow steel door or metallic click of one operated electronically, it is a sound not soon forgotten. Somebody ate Matt Cavalier's lunch. The shift log kept by corrections officers on 3-North at the Bernalillo County Detention Center shows 75 sack lunches were served and none refused on Sunday, Aug. 27. Maybe it was sewage flooding cells, or perhaps it was the lack of trust in his fellow officers. In any case, five months as a corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Detention Center was enough for Mike Bolger.