ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico state officials ... guards were hurt in the 36-hour riot fueled by overcrowded conditions. The now-closed Old Main prison near Santa Fe would become a permanent museum ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. On a frigid February night in 1980, a group of inmates in a dormitory at the Penitentiary of New Mexico ...

Retired District Judge Mike Vigil of Santa Fe, who previously represented inmates, said in a recent Journal interview that the New Mexico prison riot of February 1980 didn't actually end Feb. 3.

Watch the video above to see archive footage of the deadly riot. SANTA FE, N.M. — Nearly forty years ago a violent group of inmates at the New Mexico State Penitentiary overpowered their guards ...

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 correctional ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico guard who escaped one of the nation’s deadliest prison riots has received a posthumous honor. The state’s Department of Corrections presented the “Medal of ...

An inmate at the state prison outside Santa Fe was stabbed Wednesday morning, and two other inmates at the facility have been charged in the attack. The victim — 35-year-old Rasheed Ahmad Brown — was ...

SANTA FE, N.M.- Tickets are now available for upcoming tours of a closed New Mexico prison where one of the nation's deadliest riots took place. The New Mexico Department of Corrections said this ...

They include footage of a recent performance in front of the prison in which ... view of Pussy Riot/Nadya Tolokonnikova: Putin's Ashes at Container, Santa Fe, New Mexico Photo by Molly O'Brien ...

Marylynn Roper is standing by in Santa Fe ... of the penitentiary riot that occurred exactly 1 year ago today. The event, of course, shocked all of America as well as New Mexico.