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The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage.
KRQE reported he was charged with murder in Farfan’s death and is now charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder resulting in death, aggravated assault with a deadly ...
Alexander Ortiz, a 21-year-old charged with murder, was attacked by his alleged victim's uncle and another man in an Albuquerque, New Mexico courtroom. 'Worth every moment': Video shows victim's ...
A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, [1] [2] [3] or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot.
In the report following the riot, the prison authorities were blamed for lack of experience, and failure to understand how to control a prison population. [11] The penitentiary's defunct gas chamber. The second riot was 15 June 1953. Inmates protesting the use of excessive force seized Deputy Warden Ralph Tahash and twelve guards and held them ...
Feb. 16—An Albuquerque man pleaded guilty this week to two counts of second-degree murder and other charges for his role in a pair of unrelated killings less than four months apart in 2022 and 2023.
Clifton Duane Bloomfield (born March 1969) is an American serial killer and former movie extra who was convicted of murdering five people around Albuquerque, New Mexico, between 2005 and 2008. In the midst of his murders, Bloomfield made an appearance as a background character in the movie Felon (2008).
Aug. 4—Two people are being connected to a May fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Farmington woman. D'Jali Smith, 24, is charged with an open count of murder, shooting at/from a vehicle (great ...