283 - A Descent Into Madness: The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot

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Beheadings. Hanged bodies on fire. Blowtorch mutilations. For 36 hours in 1980, the New Mexico State Penitentiary just south of Santa Fe became a true Hell on Earth. What led to the worst display of inmate-on-inmate violence in US prison history?