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 ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A partnership between state prisons and a New Mexico college is giving inmates new opportunities. It’s an industry in need of workers. Now, 10 graduates are ready to answer.

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, ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – At the Springer Correctional Center in northern New Mexico, women inmates are getting hands-on training in wildland firefighting. The New Mexico Corrections Department’s recently ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It is the end of a legal saga for the New Mexico Corrections Department, more than a decade after mistakenly releasing a man from prison, who eventually murdered an ...

A failed political candidate was sentenced to 80 years in federal prison Wednesday for his convictions in a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque in the ...

LOS LUNAS — There’s a barbershop, a library and small computer lab. A large tree creates a shady entry into a small chapel, graced with hand-oiled, carved ceiling beams and a hand-made altar beneath a ...

It has been 46 years since one of the deadliest prison riots in U.S. history. It all happened here in New Mexico.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A company that provides medical and mental health care to New Mexico prison inmates is asking a judge to stop ...