SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – After national news spotlighted how former inmates are being hit and killed along the road back to town from the Santa Fe jail. County leaders are now leaning into new ideas to keep people from walking that road.

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Outside the Santa Fe County Detention Facility, the road has become a deadly walk for some inmates after their release. A New York Times investigation showed how, in the last decade, at least five inmates released from the jail were hit and killed on NM-14. Now the county is partnering with th

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