VOL I, Issue 10, August 27, 2014 Bye-bye, Winston Brooks PAGE 12 Riding ‘La Bestia’ to America PAGE 9 Less Solitary Confinement in New Mexico Prisons? Spent Fuel at WIPP? PAGE 5 PAGE 13 Joe Monahan: How APD Got into this Mess PAGE 7 PAGE 2 • August 27, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS ABQ Free Press Pulp News COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF VOL I, Issue 10, August 27, 2014 www.freeabq.com Sex on the move Fair. The company trademarked www.abqarts.com Aunt Jemima in 1937. Her descen- Six Swiss tourists on Ibiza, a Spanish dants allege that the company, now Editor: [email protected] island in the Mediterranean, were owned by Pepsico, also stole dozens stopped by police while in a moving of Harrington’s original recipes. Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE van, having an orgy. The three couples The company said the suit is without were fined 200 Euros, not for their sex merit. 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The teacher, who is “Good intelligence depends in large Associate Editor, Arts The public right not to know ..........................................................................................................Page 11 Black, “oversaw a profanity-laced measure on clear, concise writing,” Stephanie Hainsfurther classroom,” the New York Daily News Your tax dollars at work: Winston Brooks and APS .......................................................................Page 12 writes the guide’s author, Fran Moore (505) 301-0905 reported. The school district erred by of the agency’s analytical branch. WIPP and spent nuclear fuel .........................................................................................................Page 13 firing her immediately, rather than The CIA guide has a section titled, Design suspending her while conducting an “Numbers 10 and more,” and another Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa investigation, the judge ruled. one, “Bullets [ticks].” Photography COLUMNS Call 911! Buying votes Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm, Joseph From the Editor: The view from Roswell ...........................................................................................Page 4 A Montana man who paid $350 for Sorrentino, Steven St. John Voter turnout at last year’s Los Ange- Casino news .....................................................................................................................................Page a private dance at a Butte strip club les mayoral election was so low – 23 6 Contributors this issue called 911 to tell police the stripper percent – city officials are considering The Answer Guy: ABQ’s Invasive species ........................................................................................Page 6 refused to have sex with him. Police cash prizes of up to $50,000 to encour- Alan Hall, Answer Guy, Nate Maxson, Joe Monahan: The genesis of APD’s violence problem ...................................................................Page 7 responding to the club charged the age people to head to the polls. Joe Monahan, Cliff Olsen, Richard Oyama, 53-year-old man with soliciting Bill Previtti, Peter St. Cyr, Joseph Sorrentino, Aimless Vagabond: Pants-less in Peru .............................................................................................Page 7 prostitution. Seth Taylor, Saffron Tomato, M.J. Wilde: A selfie with my close personal friend, Ellen ..................................................................Page 8 Sapphire phones Efrain Villa, M.J. 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Books: Boys will be “White Girls”...................................................................................................Page 23 pancakes at the 1935 New York State people with cardiovascular problems. Film: Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” .............................................................................................Page 24 Where to find our paper? Reach ABQ’s TO ADVERTISE: List of more than Contact Sherri Barth 400 locations ON THE COVER: Winston Brooks, former Albuquerque Public Schools superintendent, has struck a at freeabq.com most informed (505) 261-5686 deal to collect $350,000 in taxpayer dollars in a settlement with the APS Board of Education. APS is audience [email protected] trying to keep documents in the deal secret. A judge and the Public Education Department must approve the settlement. Photo by Mark Bralley PAGE 4 • August 27, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FROM THE EDITOR NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 27, 2014 • PAGE 5 The Artesia Detention Center: N.M. Prisons Move to Limit Use of Solitary Confinement The View from Roswell BY PETER ST. CYR BY DAN VUKELICH hirty-four years after the nation’s bloodiest Segregated inmates lose ow you view asylum.’ There’s no deterrent to stop Tprison riot claimed the lives of 33 New Mexico the ability to earn good Hthe hundreds these detainees. I understand America inmates and injured a dozen guards, the culture of time, to work a job, to have of women and is where everybody wants to be because containment inside the New Mexico Department of visits with family, or to children being of everything America has to offer. I do Corrections is beginning to change. have access to rehabilita- held in Artesia in understand the humanitarian aspect of it.” For three decades, corrections officials have relied tive programming. He preparation for “These people are coming from drug on solitary confinement as a way to control prisoners’ points to a 2011 United deportation back cartel trains and then riding all the way behavior and to keep guards as well as inmates safe. Nations torture expert to Central America up to our border and then saying, ‘I am But that is changing. ABQ Free Press has