House Bill 533 — sponsored by Rep. Tara Lujan, D-Santa Fe — would lower the threshold for what is considered solitary confinement from 22 hours per day to 17 hours per day without rehabilitative programming.
Eddy County commissioners stood in support of a project to store spent nuclear fuel in southeast New Mexico, as a federal court ruling to block such a facility was under debate by the U.S. Supreme Court.
