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Navajo detention facility closed by tribe
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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2003 The Navajo Nation shut down an overcrowded detention facility because it failed to correct health, safety and other violations, The Farmington Daily Times reports. The problems at the Shiprock Detention Center in Shiprock, New Mexico, went uncorrected since January, an official told the paper. So the Navajo Office of Environmental Health closed it, sending inmates two hours away in Window Rock, Arizona, or three hours away in Tuba City, Arizona. THe facility was recently forced to release DWI convicts due to overcrowding. Get the Story:
Shiprock Detention Center shut down for violations (The Farmington Daily Times 4/1) Related Stories:
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