State pen ups security after inmate walks out front door

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Three months after an inmate said he escaped the Penitentiary of New Mexico by walking out the front door, KRQE News 13 is learning new details about how that happened and what’s changed at the prison since then.
Inmate Raymond Lopez said he walked out an unlocked front door, then an unlocked gate and finally jumped a fence to escape a minimum-security unit at the Santa Fe prison on May 1.
Lopez’s criminal history includes burglary charges. He was consid