Criminal Law
A Federal Lawsuit Alleges ‘Sadistic Welcome’ for Prison Inmates in Los Lunas
Corrections officers at a prison in Los Lunas subjected inmates to sexually degrading strip searches, painful head shaves, and other forms of abuse in 2020, a new federal lawsuit alleges.
The officers prepared “a sadistic welcome committee” for two groups of inmates transferred from another prison to the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas, an attorney who filed the suit said Tuesday.
“What’s really disappointing to me sitting here today is the fact that we filed a lawsuit against them for similar conduct 10 years ago,” said Matthew Coyte, one of two attorneys representing 14 current and former inmates.
