/tags/mdc MDC en-US Copyright Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:44:16 GMT /MDC-metropolitan-detention-center-0ver-budget-millions-dollars-traveling-nurses A new executive director for Healthcare Services has taken the reins at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center, and she’ll be taking on huge budget overages when it comes to inmate health care. Using traveling nurses to cover inmates' needs is costing the jail millions of dollars. Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:44:16 GMT /MDC-metropolitan-detention-center-0ver-budget-millions-dollars-traveling-nurses Daniel Montaño /local-news/2024-08-09/internet-outage-continues-at-bernalillo-county-jail-where-releases-have-been-halted An internet outage that began Thursday afternoon was resolved Friday evening at the Bernalillo County jail. The Metropolitan Detention Center had stopped releasing people from the jail during the outage. Fri, 09 Aug 2024 23:21:38 GMT /local-news/2024-08-09/internet-outage-continues-at-bernalillo-county-jail-where-releases-have-been-halted Nash Jones /local-news/2020-03-31/ynmg-covid-behind-the-walls Episode 31 is all about jails and prisons during the pandemic, and it's packed. (Plus, Your NM Gov is airing weeknights at 8 p.m. on 91°µÍø this week.) We… Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:45:37 GMT /local-news/2020-03-31/ynmg-covid-behind-the-walls Marisa Demarco, Hannah Colton, Khalil Ekulona /public-health-new-mexico/2020-03-27/lets-talk-coronavirus-new-normal Let's Talk New Mexico 3/27, 8a: The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken many of our basic systems in just a few weeks. Changes that once seemed… Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:22:02 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2020-03-27/lets-talk-coronavirus-new-normal Khalil Ekulona /public-health-new-mexico/2019-10-24/charter-school-serving-adults-seeks-higher-ed-funds-to-stay-open Gordon Bernell Charter School fills a gap in New Mexico’s education system, helping adults in jail or who have previously been incarcerated to build the… Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:36:57 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2019-10-24/charter-school-serving-adults-seeks-higher-ed-funds-to-stay-open Hannah Colton /local-news/2018-05-01/states-biggest-jail-allows-inmates-to-breastfeed Only a small handful of lockups around the country let new moms who are behind bars breastfeed their infants. But the Bernalillo County jail—the biggest… Tue, 01 May 2018 23:46:52 GMT /local-news/2018-05-01/states-biggest-jail-allows-inmates-to-breastfeed Marisa Demarco /public-health-new-mexico/2015-10-27/calling-home-phone-rates-in-n-m-jails-and-prisons Inmates and their relatives pay steep phone bills to keep in touch, and prison phone companies rake in billions. The Federal Communications Commission… Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:21:37 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2015-10-27/calling-home-phone-rates-in-n-m-jails-and-prisons Marisa Demarco /public-health-new-mexico/2015-02-12/the-apd-files-len-fuentes-and-mental-health You’ve heard of James Boyd, the homeless man who was killed by Albuquerque police last year. But you might not have heard of Len Fuentes. He, too, was… Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:36:48 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2015-02-12/the-apd-files-len-fuentes-and-mental-health Marisa Demarco /public-health-new-mexico/2015-02-05/new-jail-chief-talks-mental-health-methadone The Bernalillo County jail’s chief resigned more than nine months ago. Phillip Greer filled the position last month at the Metropolitan Detention Center,… Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:09:55 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2015-02-05/new-jail-chief-talks-mental-health-methadone Marisa Demarco /public-health-new-mexico/2015-01-12/overdose-reversing-drug-saves-hundreds-in-n-m A drug called naloxone reversed more than 700 overdoses in New Mexico last year. But hurdles remain for making the drug more widely available.… Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:20:49 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2015-01-12/overdose-reversing-drug-saves-hundreds-in-n-m Marisa Demarco