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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 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 1, 2008
Second Chance Center Preliminary Process Evaluation Study — University of New Mexico
Sep 21, 2008
Cult fiction: Scientologist church plans blitz of Irish schools under the guise of charity group — Sunday World (Ireland)
Sep 19, 2008
The Urban Afreeka Foundation Presents The “I Afreeka” Project (TIAP) [leaked] — Enturbulation.org
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 ...
Jul 8, 2008
Novosibirsk prosecutor to close up another scientologist organization — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Novosibirsk, July 8, Interfax - Prosecutor of the Novosibirsk Region addressed the Novosibirsk central district court a demand to close up Dianetics Siberian Center non-commercial partnership. The regional prosecutor's office has reported on Tuesday that law-enforcement agencies together with experts of regional educational department analyzed activities of the scientologist center and examined printed publications by Ron Hubbard used in the center. "Educational activity is subjected to licensing in the Russian Federation. The license for conducting educational activity is given to religious ...
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