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SANTA FE — Once again, state Rep. Angelica Rubio, D-Las Cruces, is spearheading a legislative effort to end private prisons in New Mexico. Forty-six percent of the state’s inmates are held by for-profit entities, according to a legislative analysis. The state’s four private prisons are the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa, Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs, Otero County Prison Facility as well as the adjacent immigration processing center in Chaparral, and Northwest New Mexico Correctional Cente...