Allen’s firm filed a lawsuit against the Socorro County Detention Center, staff, and county. The lawsuit said the treatment Chavez received violated his rights to medical and mental health help.

A school police source told The Times that the stabbing appeared to have occurred inside a classroom, but school police spokesman Allen Chavez said the incident occurred outside of the school.

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...