New Mexico In Depth Inc

Programs: Justice project in 2016 we launched the justice project, an ongoing reporting project in which we examine the systemic and institutional aspects of our criminal justice systems. One story revealed for the first time the inner workings of a process that cleared a nm state police officer and numerous officers before him of criminal wrongdoing in fatal police shootings. Another, a multimedia collaboration with a national media outlet, exposed the tension between the premise underlying america's understanding of justice -- that people are innocent until proven guilty -- with the reality that sometimes happens with commercial bail programs. Those with money may go free no matter how dangerous they are while non-violent, low-income people often sit behind bars waiting for their trials.

at the precipice: new mexico's changing climate the vast majority of scientists worldwide agree that human-caused climate change is happening. Nmid's 2016 project examined the effects of climate change on new mexico, which some scientists have likened to a 'canary in a coal mine. ' increasing temperatures and a higher frequency of wildfires are combining to change the diversity of flora statewide and to greater chances of flooding. Wildfires sometimes clear the ground of water-soaking plants, lea

the influence of money in politics a major reporting area for nmid in 2016 was an ongoing examination of how money influences the political and public policy making process in new mexico. Our reporting tackled the lack of campaign reporting transparency at the state level for dark money groups and the expenditures of lobbyists to influence legislation, and the process through which legislators allocate money to infrastructure projects. We also covered the debate about whether the state should cr

fellowship project--in 2016 nmid launched a fellowship program for students of color to contribute to diversifying the ranks of the country's working journalists, contribute to diversifying the ranks of the country's working journalists, contribute to diversifying the ranks of the country's working journalists, contribute to diversifying the ranks of the country's working journalists, contribute to diversifying the ranks of the country's working journalists, contribute to diversifying the ranks