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Then and Now: 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot (24 images)

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As New Mexico State Penitentiary's "Old Main" opens to the public, the media were given an early tour along with some of the retired corrections employees who were there on the day of the infamous riot. Also view some of the Journal archive photos from 1980.
  • em020112c/jnorth/daily/From left, Allison New, 16, her sister Emily New, 17, and their father Terry New, from Moriarty, tour an area of the New Mexico State Pentitentiary burned out during the riot in 1980. Allison and Emily won a national award for their history project on the Duran Consent Decree. This was during a media tour at the prison near Santa Fe, Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112l/jnorth/daily/ Allison New, 16, left, and her sister Emily New, 17, from Moriarty, tour death row in the old New Mexico State Pentitentiary in Santa Fe, Wednesday, Febuary 1, 2012. Allison and Emily won a national award for their history project on the Duran Consent Decree. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112n/jnorth/daily/Emily New, 17, left and her sister Allison New, 16, from Moriarty, won a national award for their history project on the Duran Consent Decree. Their project is on display in theNew Mexico State Pentitentiary near Santa Fe, Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112e/jnorth/daily/Broken windows in an area of the New Mexico State Pentitentiary that was never repaired after the riot of 1980. Photo shot in Santa Fe, Wednesday, Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque)

  • em020112m/jnorth/daily/From left, Terry New, with his daughters Emily New, 17, and Allison New, 16, from Moriarty, tour a burned out section of the New Mexico State Pentitentiary near Santa Fe, Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. This section was burned durning the 1980 riot. Allison and Emily won a national award for their history project on the Duran Consent Decree. This was during a media tour at the prison. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112a/jnorth/daily/Bob White, who was a classification officer at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe, talks about the horrifying things that happen in cell block 4 during the prison riot in 1980. This was during a media tour at the prison Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112b/jnorth/daily/Bob White, who was a classification officer at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe, talks about the horrifying things that happen in cell block 4 during the prison riot in 1980. This was during a media tour at the prison Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112d/jnorth/daily/Marks on the floor where, as the story has it, a man was decapitated during the 1980 riot at the New Mexico State Pentitentiary in Santa Fe. Photo shot Wednesday, Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque)

  • em020112i/jnorth/daily/The New Mexico Corrections Department will start giving public tours of the old New Mexico State Pentitentiary near Santa Fe. Photo shot Wednesday, Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque)

  • em020112f/jnorth/daily/A.B. Senna(cq), who was a classification officer at the New Mexico State Pentitentiary is Santa Fe, talks about events that happen during the prison riot in 1980. This was during a media tour at the old prison Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112g/jnorth/daily/Ronnie Steen was a National Guardsman who was one of the first to go into the New Mexico State Pentitentiary after the riot in 1980. Photo shot at the the prison near Santa Fe, Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112h/jnorth/daily/Ronnie Steen, in a photo from 1980. Steen was a National Guardsman who was one of the first to go into the New Mexico State Pentitentiary after the riot in 1980. Photo shot at the old prison near Santa Fe, Wednesday Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

  • em020112k/jnorth/daily/The New Mexico Corrections Department will start giving public tours of the New Mexico State Pentitentiary near Santa Fe. This is the gas chamber where one prisoner was executed. Photo shot Wednesday, Febuary 1, 2012. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque)

  • gbs020380a/ASEC/Greg Sorber -- A National Guard helicopter flies over a burning New Mexico Penitentary near Santa Fe during the riot in 1980.

  • PRISON RIOT 4 AP2 MILLENNIUM PIPES A badly injured inmate is lead out afterNew Mexico Prison riot in February 1980 in which rampaging inmates killed 33 other prisoners and injured scores more inmates and guards.

  • 1980 prison riot, Santa Fe, NM. Then Gov. Bruce King called the National Guard during the murderous riot in February 1980 in which rampaging inmates killed 33 other prisoners and injured scores more inmates and guards. New Mexico Penitentiary.

  • rp020580e/ASEC/Richard Pipes -- Surgeon Luis Bernardez, center, aids an overdosed inmate arriving at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe during New Mexico Penitentary riot in 1980.

  • rp020580a/ASEC/Richard Pipes -- New Mexico National Guardsmen watch over sleeping inmates after the prison riot at the New Mexico Penitentary in 1980.

  • rp020580b/ASEC/Richard Pipes -- A National Guard helicopter flies over a burning New Mexico Penitentary near Santa Fe during the riot in 1980.

  • rp020580d/ASEC/Richard Pipes -- Inmates at the New Mexico Penitentary huddle in blankets at a fence after the riot in 1980.

  • bw020580a/ASEC/Brian Walski -- With concern on their faces relatives and friends of New Mexico Penitentary inmates stand outside the prison awaiting condition reports during the riot in 1980.

  • rp020580c/ASEC/Richard Pipes -- New Mexico National Guardsmen watch over blanket draped inmates after the prison riot in 1980.

  • 1980 prison riot, Santa Fe, NM. New Mexico Penitentiary.

  • PRISON RIOT1 2-5-80 PIPES AP2 MILLENNIUMThe Cell in which a prisoner in protective custody was killed, dragged out his cell and tossed off the second tier during the New Mexico State Prison riot.

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