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Cibola County Detention Cener

Cibola County Detention Cener

Inmates: Waivers required to receive masks, ‘a lot of unrest’ inside private Cibola County lockup

By Jeff Proctor, New Mexico In Depth | May 13, 2020

Before inmates at the privately run Cibola County Correctional Center near Grants received face coverings last month, they had to sign on the dotted line. “They made us sign a waiver stipulating that if we incur any damages or injuries or what have you due to wearing the mask, that we relinquish CoreCivic (the giant, for-profit prison operator) from all liability,” one Cibola County inmate, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, told New Mexico In Depth. “And that we’re personally volunteering to wear the mask. So, if you sign the waiver, then you receive the mask.”

Family members of a second inmate, who also asked to be unnamed, described a nearly identical experience. Inmates “have been told that unless they sign a release form they do not get a mask,” the family said. 

A spokesman for CoreCivic this week wrote in an email that the company had not required legal waivers in order for inmates to receive masks.

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