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Inspection finds Metropolitan Detention Center meeting statutory review but notes staffing and resource strains
Summary
An annual inspection of Bernalillo County’s Metropolitan Detention Center highlighted programs including inmate work details, medical and mental‑health services and education access, but also noted staffing shortages and the need for shift changes to address resource constraints.
County staff presented the required annual inspection of the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) on Jan. 13, citing N.M. Stat. §33‑3‑4 as the statutory authority for the site visit and report. The presentation summarized security operations, housing units (“pods”), inmate work programs, medical and mental‑health services and planned operational changes.
Presenters described the facility’s intake configuration (a sally port and separate law‑enforcement processing entrance), housing pods with roughly 64 beds…
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