LOS LUNAS, N.M. (KRQE) – For the third year in a row, the state is seeing more inmates improving themselves while in prison by going back to school.

“I got my [GED] in December,” said Jacob Velasquez, an inmate at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility (CNMCF).

“I've been in that college program for about three years now,” said Richard Lewis, another inmate.

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Jacob Velasquez and Richard Lewi are two men counting down the days until t

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