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hello @John from Idegon:, I've removed your proposed deletion. "No indication of notability. It's a county jail. Privately run, which isn't a claim to notability, and taking state prisoners on contract, which is also not a claim to notability. One and only one independent source, and that is to a primary source."
In 2016, based on the prior work of others, I completed all of the state prison templates in the U.S., verified the complete lists for each state against then-current Department of Corrections data, and began many separate articles on prisons. It didn't make sense to write up all of them, so I used what was apparently a prior rule of thumb for notability -- a prisoner population of 1000. This caught all the significant historical / famous prisons, etc, and insured a manageable level of coverage for each state. For instance, this leaves 8 for New Mexico. To me it's self-evident that state prison systems are a primary function of state government and worth appropriate coverage.
Notice there are four independent sources: the state corrections department, a newspaper report, the operator, and the ACLU. I'm confused that you see only one independent source. --Lockley (talk) 02:09, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
