I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Earlier this year New Mexico state lawmakers trimmed what the state spends on corrections, as well as a lot of other places in the budget, as a result of the sluggish economy.
I knew the state wasn’t alone in cutting what it spends on state prisons, but here comes proof of that: a new survey paid for by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Twenty three states trimmed spending on what they spend to house prisoners for the budget year that began in July, according to the survey which was conducted by the New York-based research organization, the Vera Institute of Justice.
Only 33 states responded to the survey, but it says something that 23 of those states trimmed spending in this area.
New Mexico had trimmed its corrections expenditures by 4 percent, the survey says.
Other states, like Georgia, Idaho, Kansas and Nebraska, cut much more per capita than New Mexico did.
It just proves that cutting prison costs is a national trend, as this Stateline.org story explains.
