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

Published: Feb. 14, 2022, 7:30 p.m.

b'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?'