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Off Guard: A crisis looms at New Mexico’s largest jail, plagued by understaffing โ€” and unsafe conditions

Itโ€™s quiet outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, a hulking facility of brick, cinderblock and glass nearly 20 miles west of Albuquerque. On a recent day, cattle graze near the jailโ€™s parking lot and though the Sandia Speedway is just up the road, the tracks are silent. Even the air is fresh โ€” free of the […]

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