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Reference materials Second Chance Center New Mexico, LLC
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Dec 29, 2009
Rick Pendery, ethical Scientologist
Mar 20, 2009
Records: Second Chance owes $672K: city, state, IRS among unpaid — Albuquerque Journal
More: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Source: Albuquerque Journal
When Second Chance officials hastily vacated the old West Side jail in January, they left more than an empty building and a lot of unanswered questions, according to city and county court filings. Second Chance owes more than $600,000 in tax liens, according to records in the Bernalillo County Assessor's Office. About $400,000 is due to the IRS, and more than $200,000 to the state. Second Chance also owes the city of Albuquerque more than $17,000 in unpaid utility bills and ...
Feb 4, 2009
ABQ officials tour former rehab facility — KOB (New Mexico)
More: youtube.com
Type: TV
Author(s): Jeff Maher
Source: KOB (New Mexico)
For the first time, Albuquerque city officials got an inside look at a controversial drug rehab facility that was recently shut down. The Second Chance Rehab Center was based at the old city jail on the Mesa until the city ordered them to move out in December because of violations of a lease agreement. On Monday, city crews did a damage inspection on the place. No major damage was found, but city officials say some equipment in the kitchen is missing. ...
Jan 25, 2009
Rehab's sudden closure shrouded in mystery — KOB (New Mexico)
Type: Press
Source: KOB (New Mexico)
The controversial drug rehabilitation center Second Chance abruptly closed up Saturday leaving questions about where it sent 19 inmates housed at the West Side facility. The City of Albuquerque said when they got word Saturday afternoon something was happening at the Second Chance, they sent police officers to check it out. The officers confirmed all the inmates and personnel at the facility were gone. The city says Second Chance vacated its property on the West Mesa without warning. The rehab program ...
Jan 25, 2009
Scientology base denied by officials — Albuquerque Journal
More: abqjournal.com, forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer The Second Chance drug rehab program was pitched to lawmakers and the judiciary as the missing link in a broken system that recycled non-violent drug offenders between jails, prisons and the streets. The past year, it has struggled through money problems and accusations that it is housing ineligible inmates. On Saturday, faced with a city-delivered Jan. 31 deadline to vacate, Second Chance officials moved the last of its inmates out. But throughout the ...
Jan 25, 2009
Second Chance removes last inmates from old jail building — Albuquerque Journal
More: abqjournal.com, forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer Second Chance officials pulled the last of their inmates out of the old West Side jail building Saturday, marking an abrupt end to the drug rehab program's controversial two-plus years there. Fewer than 20 inmates had remained as of the end of the week. The remaining inmates were taken back to the jurisdictions from which they had been sentenced, including Grant and Sierra counties. Even after a Journal photographer had taken pictures of ...
Jan 24, 2009
Second Chance leaves city building — KRQE
Type: TV
Source: KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The building that housed the controversial Second Chance drug rehabilitation center is now empty. On Saturday, Second Chance officials packed up and moved out of the building, a week ahead of a city imposed deadline. Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez ordered the group to leave, saying Second Chance violated conditions of their lease by housing offenders who had been convicted of violent crimes and making unauthorized changes to the building. Chief Public Safety Director Pete Dinelli ordered officers to ...
Jan 10, 2009
Judges differ on Second Chance — Albuquerque Journal
More: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
By Jeff Proctor Journal Staff Writer As controversy has swirled around the Second Chance secure drug rehabilitation center over the types of inmates it is allowed to house, the center's officials have maintained that the decision has always been up to individual judges. But it appears at least some of the judges who have sentenced people to Second Chance were told different things about what sort of inmates the program was geared toward. Second Chance President Joy Westrum has refused interview ...
Jan 3, 2009
Inmates pulled from Second Chance — Albuquerque Journal
More: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
By Jeff Proctor Journal Staff Writer During the past week, county officials from around the state have been removing their inmates from the controversial Second Chance Center, which the city of Albuquerque plans to kick out of the old West Side jail building at the end of the month. It is unclear how many inmates have been moved out of the center, which city officials have ordered out of the old jail by Jan. 31. The center has violated its lease ...
Jan 1, 2009
Rehab center tries to garner support / Letters sent to state legislators — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Joy Westrum, president of the soon-to-be evicted Second Chance rehabilitation program, is trying to drum up legislative support to save her program. On Wednesday, Westrum sent out an e-mail to several state senators and representatives asking them to "encourage the mayor and the city of Albuquerque to do everything possible to resolve any legitimate concerns regarding the lease with Second Chance" for the old West Side jail building. It is unclear which or how many legislators received the e-mail. Westrum said ...
Dec 27, 2008
Mayor evicts Second Chance: Center violated its lease, city says — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Dan McKay, Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Mayor Martin Chavez on Friday sent a notice to the Second Chance rehabilitation program, ordering it out of the old West Side jail by Jan. 31. The city contends that Second Chance violated its lease agreement by housing violent offenders and making unauthorized changes to the building. C h ave z said he was particularly c onc er ne d that Second Ch a nc e, i n h is v iew, had recently moved some of its residents to "avoid ...
Dec 27, 2008
Rehab center loses contract, lease — KRQE
Type: TV
Source: KRQE
SOCCORO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) - It's been a bad week for the controversial Second Chance drug and alcohol treatment center. On Friday, the City of Albuquerque terminated the center's lease, and a day later Socorro County is cutting ties. The El Defensor Chieftain newspaper reports that the Socorro County Commission voted this week to void their contract with Second Chance because of problems that recently surfaced at the facility. Two Socorro County inmates were housed there when commissioners voted Tuesday. Friday, ...
Dec 26, 2008
City pulls plug on Second Chance — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s): Dave Bohman
Source: KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A controversial drug-rehab center organized on elements of Scientology is being evicted for housing inmates convicted of violent crimes, Albuquerque's mayor said Friday. The eviction notice gives Second Chance until the end of the next month to wind down the operation housed in a former city jail on Albuquerque's northwest mesa. So far there has been no response from Second Chance. For the 46 inmates now housed at Second Chance it appears that in a matter of weeks ...
Dec 26, 2008
Officials say lease is probably up for Second Chance Center — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
The controversial Second Chance Center is probably not going to get another chance, officials said Thursday. The violent criminals from around the state who are being housed at the secure residential drug treatment facility may cost Second Chance its lease on the old West Side jail building, Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Pete Dinelli said Thursday. Housing inmates with convictions for violent offenses is in direct violation of Second Chance's mandate, Dinelli said. "We made it very clear to (Second Chance) ...
Dec 25, 2008
Second Chance inmates moved: 8 are driven away in van; 40 people taken to shelter — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Dec 25, 2008 (Albuquerque Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) – Eight inmates were loaded onto a van at the embattled Second Chance Center drug rehabilitation program early Wednesday and driven west from the secure center and across the Bernalillo County line, officials said. Another 40 people were loaded onto a bus outside the center and dropped off at an Albuquerque homeless shelter, city officials said. Authorities are still trying to sort out how many of the 48 people were ...
Dec 25, 2008
Second Chance responds to allegations — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s): Dave Bohman
Source: KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Director of the Second Chance rehabilitation center is firing back after a News 13 report on Wednesday. Director Joy Westrum is angry after Albuquerque police claimed the facility snuck out 40 inmates ahead of a deadline to report them. The city made a mistake. Those 40 people bussed downtown on Wednesday were from the Albuquerque Rescue Mission which shares a building with Second Chance. However Albuquerque Public Safety Director Pete Dinelli said he's confirmed eight other people ...
Item contributed by: Martin Poulter
Dec 24, 2008
Nighttime shuttles clear rehab center / Second Chance blew last chance? — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s): Dave Bohman
Source: KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Under cover of darkness Wednesday the troubled Second Chance rehab center mysteriously shuttled nearly 50 patients or inmates away from its facility just ahead of a deadline to explain who it's been housing. Albuquerque police who put the West Mesa facility under surveillance said they witnessed the bizarre twist in the Second Chance saga early Wednesday. Later in the day the rehab program was under a 5 p.m. deadline to document all its inmates and clients to the ...
Dec 20, 2008
Center may be out of options: Second Chance must make accounting to city or face closure — Albuquerque Journal
More: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
The Second Chance Center has until Christmas Eve to satisfy the city or face eviction. If the secure rehabilitation facility for drug offenders currently leasing the old West Side jail building from the city doesn't give a detailed accounting of its inmates, what charges landed them at Second Chance, what treatment they are receiving and information about the center's insurance and property taxes, it will most likely be shut down, city officials said. Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Pete Dinelli sent ...
Dec 20, 2008
Official backs off Second Chance inmates / Mayor still wants investigation — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s): Michael Herzenberg
Source: KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A Sierra County official engaged in major backtracking Friday after her statements the day before threatened to cause big trouble for an Albuquerque drug-treatment program called Second Chance. County Manager Janet Porter-Carrejo told News 13 that she was sending overflow inmates from her jail to the Second Chance rehab center without getting permission from a judge. However on Friday she said she now believes that judges did OK those inmates. She also said a clerical mistake at her ...
Dec 18, 2008
NM rehab center housing overflow inmates — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Source: Albuquerque Journal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A controversial Albuquerque rehabilitation center is struggling with finances, and the secure facility for drug and alcohol offenders could be in violation of the law that allowed it to open by housing overf low prisoners from a county jail . The Second Chance Center uses massage, natural diet, saunas, and some training manuals based on criminal justice research done by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to detoxify and rehabilitate drug offenders. But the program is facing ...
Dec 12, 2008
Mayor right to end Scientology program to combat drugs — Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico)
Type: Press
Source: Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico)
Miyagishima said when he first initiated his "Drug-Free Marshal" program, he was unaware that it was funded by Scientology. A sticker on the back of badges given to area third-graders identifies them as being "a trademark owned by the Church of Scientology International." The real concern was not so much the badges, but pamphlets that were to have been distributed to fifth-graders. Those pamphlets condemned not only illegal street drugs, but also legal drugs such as Ritalin that Scientologists strongly oppose. ...
Dec 8, 2008
LC mayor halts program sponsored by Scientologists — KVIA ABC-7 (New Mexico)
Type: TV
Author(s): Ken Molestina
Source: KVIA ABC-7 (New Mexico)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – It's a program aimed at getting kids off the streets and away from drugs. But now Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima is saying "not so fast." The program is called the Drug-Free Marshall Program, and it was quite a hit until the mayor found out it was sponsored by the Church of Scientology. Miyagishima said he was originally approached about the program in the summer. He said he liked the purpose and tried it in five different ...
Dec 7, 2008
Mayor abandons anti-drug program affiliated with Church of Scientology — Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico)
Type: Press
Author(s): Ashley Meeks
Source: Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico)
LAS CRUCES — The city is immediately ending an anti-drug program aimed at third-graders after it was revealed it was created and bankrolled by the Church of Scientology. The "Drug-Free Marshal" program, started in late November, had only been presented to five schools but was intended to be promoted eventually among all third-graders in the Las Cruces Public Schools. Mayor Ken Miyagishima apologized Saturday and said it was not his intention to promote the religion. The mayor said he was approached ...
Dec 4, 2008
Sheriff criticizes drug rehab program — KOB (New Mexico)
More: 74.125.93.132
Type: TV
Author(s): Chris Ornelas, Joshua Panas
Source: KOB (New Mexico)
A controversial drug rehab program on Albuquerque's West Side may be on the verge of losing its state funding. Second Chance has been ridiculed for its expensive carrot juice and sauna approach to cleaning up addicts and now, some people are questioning whether it's a good use of taxpayer dollars. "Lets put that money, especially right now, when were on real hard economic times, lets put that money where we know it has a proven successful track record," said Bernalillo County ...
Nov 18, 2008
Study questions drug-treatment results // Panel hears disputed figures — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s): Michael Herzenberg
Source: KRQE
SANTA FE (KRQE) — A report presented to a legislative committee Monday suggests an Albuquerque drug-treatment program seeking more state money may not be as good as it claimed. Dr. Paul Guerin, who has been studying the program based on the teachings of the founder of Scientology, reported it does not have the success rate it has pointed to in the past. He delivered the results of his study in testimony to the Legislatures Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee meeting in ...
Oct 7, 2008
Commissioners decline to pursue rehabilitation program — CNJ
Type: Press
Author(s): Sharna Johnson
Source: CNJ
Curry County Commissioners agreed Tuesday not to pursue a contract with an Albuquerque rehabilitation program aimed at treating habitual drug offenders. [Picture: "Following Tuesday's meeting, officials toured the Special Events Center. Construction on the Special Events Center is about 98 percent complete with more than $31,000 left in contingency, Construction Project Supervisor Randy Kamradt said."] County Manager Lance Pyle told commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting the Second Chance Center has neglected to return a signed contract to the county since the commission ...
Oct 7, 2008
Rules set for downtown Scientology project — KRQE
Type: TV
Source: KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Albuquerque City Council Monday night unanimously denied the Church of Scientology's request to apply for a permissive-use permit for a downtown building. The church wants to convert the former Gizmo Store building in the 500 block of Central Avenue SW into the local Scientology center. A permissive-use permit would make that easier. Instead the council agreed with the ruling of a hearing officer who determined the Scientologists must seek a conditional-use permit. That will require another hearing. ...
Oct 1, 2008
Second Chance Center Preliminary Process Evaluation Study — University of New Mexico
Jul 21, 2008
Rehab center carries low success rate — KRQE
More: transcript
Type: TV
Author(s): Michael Herzenberg
Source: KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque rehabilitation program doesn't have nearly as good a success rate as organizers claim, a News 13 investigation finds. The Second Chance program, developed by the founder of Scientology, uses saunas to sweat out toxins and other techniques to try to get people off drugs and alcohol. Judges have sent more than 90 convicts to the facility near the Double Eagle II airport on Albuquerque's West Mesa since it opened in September 2006. The federal government and ...
Jun 20, 2008
Former judge sentence reduced — KRQE
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