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06-14-2017, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore
I became good friends with the retired Deputy Chief of the State Police and he was a young patrolman...when the New Mexico Penitentiary riot occurred.
During one of our many rounds of golf together, he mentioned that the things that were done to some of the inmates, by other inmates, using blow torches...would stay with him the rest of his life.  |
It was a gruesome riot. At the time, in 1980, I was living in Los Alamos, NM and heard many stories from men I knew in law enforcement. Bruce King was governor, sort of a good old boy, and really did not do much about changing conditions (so called reform) at the prison.
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