Heather McClenahan, executive director of the Los Alamos Historical Museum, said the museum’s board of directors felt uncomfortable about the exhibit’s call to abolish nuclear bombs.
The corporate entity that operates the facility, CoreCivic — formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America — is the second-largest private prison company in the nation.
The Albuquerque Police Department has been under federal investigation for years, and court-appointed monitoring, for excessive force and police killings.
ALBUQUERQUE — The ACLU sued Albuquerque for information on how its police use Stingray cellphone spying technology, and whether they use it for immigration enforcement, but Albuquerque claims all such records are confidential — including
“The U.S. Marshals’ attempt to execute an arrest warrant at a West Central trailer park early Saturday morning led to a shooting and a family demanding answers from authorities.”
United States Marshals shot and killed the wrong man in the wrong trailer before turning their attention to the right trailer and arresting the right man early Saturday morning in New Mexico. But now they are not admitting any wrongdoing. However, 23-year-old Edgar Alvarado was shot dead before they eventually nabbed 25-year-old murder
As noted numerous times by Cato and other civil liberties advocates like the Institute for Justice and the ACLU, civil asset forfeiture is a conceptually unjust practice that has no place in a society that cherishes due process and private property.
Confiscated cash on display during a news conference at New York City Police Department. (AP/Mary Altaffer)
Hopi officials’ moves to impound Navajo-owned sheep goes beyond a mere tribal dispute over grazing land to reveal how acutely climate change is impacting Native traditions and ways of life in the American Southwest.
This Sept. 4, 2011, file photo shows the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP PINON, Arizona --- Sheep have been an integral part of the lives of generations of Diné, providing food and wool to those living in relative isolation atop the
A lawsuit that will cause the structure of Obamacare to “crumble,” according to a state attorney general who is one of the lawsuit’s leading proponents, rests on a falsehood about how one former senator helped shape the act.
A lawsuit that will cause the structure of Obamacare to “crumble,” according to a state attorney general who is one of the lawsuit’s leading proponents, rests on a falsehood about how one former senator helped shape the act. Nevertheless,
