Thank you for highlighting this article.  I agree legislation should have been passed to not permit Estsncia to allow this type of facility to exist,  I want to thank Phaedra for exposing this situation,<div><br></div><div>Kelly<br><div><br>On Sunday, June 1, 2025, Meredith Machen via Action &lt;<a href="mailto:action@mailman.swcp.com">action@mailman.swcp.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Please read the article linked below. What an unconscionable travesty that our legislators did not pass the legislation that would make it impossible for this kind of abuse and maltreatment to continue in our state. </div><br><div dir="ltr">Meredith Machen <div><a href="mailto:Meredith.Machen@gmail.com" target="_blank">Meredith.Machen@gmail.com</a> <br><div>505 577 6337</div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space">Here is the front page story by Phaedra Haywood in the New Mexican on Friday May 30th about the ICE prison in Estancia just 69 miles south of Santa Fe.  The private prison (CoreCivic) is under contract with ICE and with Torrance County.  Conditions are inhumane, cruel and unsanitary.  People are being arrested by ICE on the East Coast and sent here in secrecy.  The newspaper story is attached here in case you missed it.  </div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span><a href="http://enewmexican.pressreader.com/article/281500757182775" target="_blank">Detention center population grows</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12px">By Phaedra Haywood <a href="mailto:phaywood@sfnewmexican.com" target="_blank">phaywood@sfnewmexican.<wbr>com</a></span></p></div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><br></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div>