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Report: Blanket around inmate's neck

Silva ‘not identified as being a risk to himself.’

PORTALES — On his entry June 12 to the Roosevelt County jail, Manuel Silva, Jr., 23, was “classified as a maximum security detainee” and “housed in a single occupancy cell.”

Officials found him in that cell two days later unresponsive. They declared...