State of New Mexico Archives: on Crime

Joe Carraro: Supports the death penalty

Carraro supports the following principles regarding crime and the death penalty.
• Support the death penalty in New Mexico.
• Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.

Joe Carraro: No parole for repeat violent offenders; plus more prisons

Carraro supports the following principles regarding crime.
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.