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Throughline Presents: White Lies

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Prison Riots - The First Day of the Takeover

The New Mexico State Prison Riot of 1980, one of the most notorious in U.S. history, began when a group of inmates overpowered four guards. The riot ended with 33 deaths and over 200 injuries, and what researchers would later call an orgy of violence. A guard was hit over the head with a mop handle right at the beginning,. But the detainees released him for medical treatment within hours. "You had that kind of in the back of your head that bad things could happen any second"

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