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Deadly prison riot a lesson for future guards
By krqe.com- Alex Goldsmith
Published: 02/03/2015

SANTA FE (KRQE) - February 2, 1980 was a day New Mexicans who were alive to see it can’t forget.

Inmates took over the old New Mexico State Penitentiary south of Santa Fe, taking guards hostage. 33 prisoners died during the ensuing chaos, many brutally.

But 35 years later, there are many who never learned what happened in the now-shuttered prison.

“I grew up here all my life I’ve been living here for pretty much almost 18 years and this is actually the first I’m hearing of it,” said Steve Henderson, a Corrections cadet.

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