The New Mexico Prison Riot Was The "Bloodiest Prison Riot" in American History
America’s bloodiest prison riot started on February 1, 1980 at the New Mexico State Penitentiary and ended 36 hours later with 34 casualties. Prison guards were brutally sodomized, pedophiles and convicted rapist were brutally disfigured, and the prison’s “snitches” population were tortured and dismembered while still alive. W.