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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.
Nov. 4—Twice in the past 11 years, Anthony "Smiley" Gallegos was arrested for the gruesome murder of a 28-year-old Los Lunas man. And twice he was set free after the charges were dismissed. Last ...
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.
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.
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Suiter was arrested over a $175 shoplifting accusation. Because of the overcrowding of jails in Albuquerque, Suiter was incarcerated at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. He was incarcerated just 8 days before the New Mexico State penitentiary riots took place in 1980, the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Suiter was beaten with a metal ...