The New Mexico Corrections Department has lost track of nearly two dozen prisoners in its custody who are serving life sentences for crimes they committed as children.
The bill wouldn’t guarantee freedom to juvenile lifers in New Mexico, but it would provide them a chance to articulate to the state parole board how they have changed, including whether they’ve taken accountability for their actions, followed prison rules and completed educational programming.
Carmelina Hart, spokesperson for the corrections department, initially sent ProPublica the names of 13 people in New Mexico’s prison system who were sentenced to life as children, which she said was the extent of the cohort. Asked for the names of all prisoners who would be affected by the bill, Hart said that only the state court system could provide such a list.
Because these kids were prosecuted as adults, he added, their cases can look the same as adult ones in court data.She later said on a phone call, “Come on now, people don’t just fall out of our dataset.”
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