1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary prison riot - documentary

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Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed. A truly chilling programme, when the inmates had control of the prison they dished out some truely brutal behaviour on fellow prisoners who were suspected of being snitches orsex offenders.
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[@ThirdSpectrum]

Putting a young kid for shoplifting into a super max prison full of serial killer maniacs who were serving life sentences seems like the biggest miscarriage of justice ever.

[@jonathandpg6115]

it was but remember before there was no classification in NM. They started classifying because of the riot

[@mesozoicperiodvlogs8323]

USA at its finest

[@brandocolossus5965]

Thats why we stress, don't break the law. Going in on a 1 year bid could end up costing you your life.

[@idmtztemp9211]

The judge who put him there must've been happy about that..just a kid..

[@samramos1470]

@@TrackpadProductions so true.. so many people just don't give a shit about this big issue america has.

[@edwardcarter3332]

I was an inmate at the Old Main from 1992-1993 before I was reclassified and shipped to medium security in Grants, NM. The place smells like blood. What happened in 1980 stuck to the place. Very eerie and dark vibe that clings. I was repeatedly told by inmates and CO's alike that the place was haunted. Shit like that don't wash out. I will never forget my time there and I damn sure wouldn't want to go back, not for a tour, documentary, nothing. Needs to be torn down. It's a tomb and always has been.

[@stephenkoehler9045]

+Edward Carter not meaning to bother. thats so interesting you were there. were you ever in CB4? also any crazy stories from that place?

[@amirahkukan782]

They did a dead files episode there, and it was by far the scariest one I've seen. They shot a film there,and one of the crew found a hat there, and carelessly took it home with her. Not long after dark things started happening. Haunted by a shadow figure and the like. Amy Adams ( the medium) said that the LA d itself was bad, something terrible happened there hundreds of years ago, a massacre. There have been loads of accounts by staff and inmates post riot, of seeing and feeling really dark things. The whole thing is terrifying.

[@T8RZTOTZ]

Edward care to discuss penitentiary war stories?

[@ThorGuitarCovers]

ghosts don't exist. very spooky tho

[@EmporerAaron]

Don't blame you, never been there (never been to prison period) how do you look at the prison the same way again after something like this happens to it. The people who were apart of it may die, the detailed memory may die, but its always going to be there.

[@deadsparrow28]

Documentary aired year 2000, in case you are wondering about the ages of everyone interviewed.

[@Nobody-xh5qe]

Thank you

[@subzero-ws7wt]

It looks older than that. It looks as if it was filmed in the early 90's

[@ar-sithf.austin3744]

Prison cat was wearing a Bolo. Sorry but this is more like early 90s.

[@michele7829]

@@ar-sithf.austin3744 well the guy wearing the hat it says got out of incarceration in 1998 so there's no way this was filmed in the early 90s.

[@rohan750]

why does it look like it was shot in the late 80's though?

[@yayhandles]

33:37 "And you've been accused of involvement in that. Were you involved... were you in cell block 4?" *Pauses and glances to the side* "I've been in cell block 4 before, yeah." Absolutely chilling.

[@pauljones8218]

i wonder what he did when he was down in the cell block 4

[@SinewRending]

​@@pauljones8218*You know what he did.*

[@shawnbergman6558]

Mike Colby was a stone cold killer.

[@princesswreckage]

The documentary titled Shakedown in Santa Fe features interviews with Michael Colby's buddy and fellow "negotiator" William Jack Stephens ( seen at 39:39 ). He describes what happened in CB4 in more detail, explaining how the inmates with blowtorches were systematically going down the row of cells. "And I wonder, you know, what was going through these guy's minds when they know, cell by cell, pretty soon it's gonna be their turn." Stephens also described the riot in the documentary Death in a Southwest Prison as "all the things you ever dream of." Being eye-to-eye with either of them, knowing what they were capable of, must have been a haunting experience.

[@4465Vman]

very.....hes a long time convict so he knows to say ...nothing

[@KristenHammerback-pk5wy]

The poor prison guards, the poor prison staff, the poor inmates who were non-violent offenders. What a tragedy.

[@Angelo-ve5sd]

What God damn video you watching? Doesn't anybody pay attention. The Officers were the reason why they rioted. They treat the inmates like animals and beat them regularly. It all came out in this video. The Officers even admitted they abused the inmates and crowded them on purpose by the higher ranking Officers. Same thing happened at Sing Sing prison in that big riot. It's all documented. I can't believe how many people agree with your comment. Doesn't anybody pay attention to what your watching? The biggest enemy in the Prisons isn't blacks against white it's Officers against inmates period. Upstate New York Prisons are the worst. Those redneck farmboy officers will kill you up in there and get away with it. And they tell you that everyday. I seen it. They will put you in a cell and you won't never get fed. What do you think a inmate with life is gonna do if he had the chance to get revenge on a Officer who beat him numerous times and lied on him to get him a longer sentence etc. No mercy for them bastards!!!

[@davidprice7162]

Gary Nelson, along with his brother, survived the riots because they were both 6'2", 250lbs and armed with knives, walking back to back protecting each other. After he was released, he went straight and became a lawyer and civil rights proponent.

[@killerfrank8974]

He seemed like a very interesting and smart guy. I'm glad he straightened his life out and made something of himself.

[@davidprice7162]

@@killerfrank8974 totally. Became a lawyer. And was, as of 2020, battling lukemkemia, which he suspects he may of contracted after all the noxious shit he breated in. He's probably passed by now unfortunately. Still, he lived a great life since the 80s

[@spiralrose]

I thought felons were barred from practicing law. Guess not🤷🏻‍♀️

[@joeygarcia6783]

Tight video straight up

[@davidrice3337]

He went straight and became a lawyer?!? He didn't go straight - he went bad

[@tyj9175]

i used to drive past this place before knowing what happened there, always gave me the creeps. pueblo indians supposedly stayed away from the area because of evil spirits and thats where the prison ended up. compared to all other prison riot stories, this one is truly diabolical.

[@Paddyllfixit]

It's one of the most haunted places in New Mexico, if not the U.S. Some great footage in My Ghost Story(caught on camera)

[@jondoe562]

@@Paddyllfixit can I see the video bro

[@tomparker962]

@@Paddyllfixit can I see that pls and where can I find it?

[@ilysebell7074]

There is an ancient evil In the ground. In the Earth itself In the land that surrounds that penitentiary. The Indians knew it and I know it because I lived in Santa Fe for 12 years. I drove by the place once and that was enough. The negativity and horror that you feel in the ground in the air.. It's palpable and it's undeniable. It's not a prison... it's a portal to hell. Why don't people ever listen to the American Indians? They knew there was evil there hundreds of years before there was a prison. They knew to avoid that whole area!

[@jacksonyoung3497]

Your clearly from New Mexico 👽

[@azolivas]

The inmate that carried the decapitated head around on a spike was transferred to an Arizona prison that I work for. The worst inmates that participated were sent to various out of state prisons.

[@manuelmunoz6749]

I'm from Arizona what was his name ??

[@jacktmor]

azolivas please explain more ? I imagine the dude is an old guy by now.

[@beaboutitdonttalkaboutit8204]

Helen coe ok boomer

[@beaboutitdonttalkaboutit8204]

Junior Mudd bro how you boomers get free education but still dumb ass shit smh

[@Shinobi33]

Was that black killed for being a snitch or just because ?

[@NickanM]

May that young shoplifting boy rest in peace. Innocent blood spilled...

[@arthurbunsch3067]

Same goes for that black kid with the mind of a 12 year old.

[@Baraka_Obama_]

@@Beastgrows Savage bro

[@Beastgrows]

@@Baraka_Obama_ Any hole's a goal !!!

[@stanmelvin3061]

That's what's fucked up with the wood pile. (white convicts) They gravitate towards abusing their weaker brothers. I am white, grew up in the pens during that era and did my best to rescue those whom were vulnerable. Had I been ridin' on that yard at that time, I would have not allowed that to happen to him. He wouldn't have been raped and he wouldn't have had to check in. All he would have had to do is be willing to represent himself, ie: maybe take an ass kickin' in one of those day rooms heads up (WOULD NOT have allowed him to be rat packed) and that would have allowed me all the license I would have needed to Intervene, stave the wolves off, take him under the wing and school him. Never have nor would fuck a man, so that's why he would have had to initially go to bat for himself; unless you are steppin in as Dad, ie: claiming one for your personal property, thatz all that someone would have needed to do. Was in the pen in NV when a few of the NM transfers arrived. Dope fiend booty bandits; fuckin sick what they did to him.

[@waltersobchak7275]

@@stanmelvin3061 Bet you've seen some shit......damn. The whole scenario sounds scary as fuck and I'm 45. I know enough bad motherfuckes. Enough to you know, I damn sure ain't one.

[@yourmomsdad1664]

My grandfather on my moms side was at PNM during the riots for a murder he didn’t commit. I heard my dad talking about the riots among him and his friends. My grandpa was a very silent and observant man, and I remember being old enough to finally ask him about the riots. We were sitting outside the porch and he was drinking his can of bud. I regret asking him about what happened. His facial expression went through 100 different expressions and he starts tearing up. “I’m trying my best to forget that mijo.” He saw chomos getting castrated, snitches be headed or disemboweled, inmates and guards being raped. Now as a full grown man I realized what I asked him to relive and I regret that.

[@brunogiovannisantinijunior4380]

Good story …any other stories you can make up for us?

[@dimebagvinnie644]

Damn ....sorry bro

[@T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G.]

i would respect him if not for the fact he drink bud light

[@perpetualmotion357]

@@T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G. Where's it say he was drinking bud light? 12 warm regular budweiser definitely takes the pain away

[@poindextertunes]

@@T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G.you’re so closeted 😂

[@MrBoywonder1985]

It was pure savagery -- humans are capable of the most heinous barbarisms.

[@AceofDlamonds]

MrBoywonder1985 Yup. and to think almost every man around you is capable of this under the right circumstances

[@MrBoywonder1985]

V Ling Yikes! How frightening that is.

[@EmporerAaron]

Makes me think that regardless of how far we advanced, how civilized we act, that part of us is still buried inside of us. And some of us are capable of embracing it, others would kill themselves before going down that path, and others would slowly accept it. Makes me think in a world like this, how many people in society and not in prison are close to that line already.

[@MrBoywonder1985]

EmporerAaron When you think of human suffering, the greatest perpetrator has to be other humans. I mean, sure, earthquakes and tsunamis have killed hundreds of thousands, but that's pittance compared to the Holocaust, Stalin and Mao's purges, and Pol Pot's mass executions -- easily over 100 million died at the hands of these monstrous men. And then they say that the Middle Ages were "dark"!

[@zorroalphonso4354]

Humans are intelligent animals, so they could only be worse than animals!

[@DarrenBonJovi]

That former guard, Larry sounds like a bag of nerves, even so many years after the event.

[@patrickrodriguez320]

Did you forget?.... It was his first day on the job he said at the beginning of his interview

[@thomaskifleiesus8157]

I guess being back brought back memories to him and has we saw he was Hell as we know it ,

[@DarrenBonJovi]

Patrick Rodriguez Sorry, sir, I forgot.

[@jurado6335]

+DarrenBonJovi how would you be if you were held hostage by people allready doing life for murder. and the killers literly walk up to you dangling a human head in front of you ..asking you "witch one of you wants to go next" lol theres no way smh to even comprehend what this guy goes thru on a daily ptsd out of the fuckn roof for sure .

[@NickanM]

Talk about incurable PTSD.

[@ronmexico1874]

Colby and the guy with sunglasses and creepy mustache who felt no remorse are both total flatliners with no moral pulse. No human measures can help those two. Only Divine intervention. Why is Colby walking the streets?

[@kyleyoung1156]

I looked him just up and he got locked back up not long ago... once again

[@spencergregory8049]

@@kyleyoung1156 Is he back in or does he have to report in? I to looked him up and as of 2017 he was still expected to report in but the photos I've seen have him holding an id card like locked up people have but I may be wrong? As an aside apparently he won a substantial payout prior to his release from prison. Who says crime doesn't pay 🤷?

[@jayr3381]

I agree that that's one nasty looking mustache.

[@AppalachianCryptidDoge]

I remember when I became a correctional officer I had to watch this at the Academy. I've never forgotten the insufferable soundtrack. ON THE BLUEEEEEE

[@karenault6273]

Did the inmates run a train on you like a car assembly line ??? Lol 🤣 not funny really but hopefully you treated ppl like ppl not animals

[@bennywooly304]

Yo I just came here because we talked about it in academy today 😂

[@AppalachianCryptidDoge]

@@bennywooly304 you aren't KY DoC are you :D

[@bennywooly304]

@@AppalachianCryptidDoge no actually, Idaho corrections. Shows you how much reach this documentary has😂

[@scottyweimuller6152]

@@karenault6273 go figure a Karen

[@sewblue187]

To label someone a snitch and put their life on the line for information is evil asf. The prison warden and CO s are no better than the inmates

[@ProudGoyim666]

no worse than the inmates, yes. breaking the law gets you where you are whether stealing an apple or a car. Stealing is Stealing. IMO, I'd be x1,000 times harder on humans who break these laws they already KNOW are illegal-yet,, still choose to break the law. You teach others how to treat you. There HAS to be law. Each and every one of these individuals could've gotten a job or go to college etc, and if they didn't like any of the scenarios/options in america, they could've simply LEFT america and went elsewhere on the planet. THEND.

[@ozwallofarmer2188]

Of course not. When I was "away" a guard said, "The only difference between you and I, is you got caught "

[@brandocolossus5965]

Everyone wants to be a gangster until its time to do some gangster shit. Stay out of trouble kids. This place sounds like hell. Even for the perpetrators. Nobody wins. Everyone loses. Lets love each other and heal.

[@angeloflight8714]

My uncle did 38 years in prison for 3 different merderd. He told me if he ever saw me in prison, he would kick my ass. He was there when the riot happened. He told me , it was hell on earth. Gruesome things he witnessed.

[@matthewmorel3758]

The USA throws people in prison for petty crimes.

[@bruceperkins7253]

It was and it was planned

[@Basedapple]

@@angeloflight8714 I’m sorry for you’re uncle is he alright?

[@dicklong4038]

@@bruceperkins7253 elaborate on this. What was planned?

[@robertmirabal4717]

My brother was one of the inmates tortured and killed during the riot. His name is Joseph A. Mirabal. He got there by violating his probation for receiving stolen property. When he was young (9-14) he was a an alter boy in the catholic church in our town of Alamogordo. When I was very small and still learning to talk I gave everyone in my family their nickname that they still use to this day. Joseph's nickname was "Joe Tony". Everyone knew him by that name. He was raised by our grandparents. When my grandfather passed away, Joe Tony turned wild and often chased by the law all over town. In 1977 he told me he was having a recurring dream of him having a bad death and that he would never live past the age of 24. He told me no one would ever be convicted of his death and everyone would know about it. I asked him who is "everyone?" He said, "everyone everywhere." He explained to me that when you are a alter boy you are supposed to lead a clean life which is something he failed to do. So in order to receive forgiveness from God he would have to suffer a bad, torturous and painful death. He didn't know where this would take place. He was 21 at the time when he told me and my half-sister about his recurring dream. When he died in the NM prison riot he was 24 and two weeks after his birthday on January 18th, 1980. Joe Tony despised "snitches" all his life. He was not a gang member and was known to stand on his own two feet and fight his own battles. Many admired his courage and his willingness to help and protect others from those who meant to harm them. He served his country during the Vietnam War in the U.S. Navy. Before that he spent a year and half in reform school in Springer, NM. He was 17 1/2 when he was released. Six months later he joined the Navy. He led a remarkable life and would make a good book or a movie epic like Ben Hur with the prison riot as its centerpiece. I wonder if the prison riot was determined to happen no matter what anyone did to try and stop it. The riot was already foretold in his dreams.

[@revan107]

@Tom Stanton I agree, I call BS. Also, if altar boys who go astray are supposed to die horrible deaths, what about the catholic priests who go astray and die of natural causes. Religion is BS too.

[@robertmirabal4717]

@@revan107 Have you ever asked how the 12 apostles died?

[@Rigoberto365-]

This sound like a ton of crap no one gives a shit what he did when he was a child people don’t stay children for ever

[@shiverarts8284]

@@Rigoberto365- The Church is based. You have stupid prison wardens or whatever, making religious decisions for a bunch of inmates. Idiotic.

[@Occams_Razor489]

@Robert Mirabal I’m sorry that happened to your brother

[@walidsoroor8619]

Who else is watching n reading the comments? Great video

[@davidrice3337]

Me

[@jeremymartin-ys3gj]

Me

[@WeRNthisToGetHer]

I'm totally horrified and fascinated at the same time about this situation

[@rexscipio3344]

You need help

[@lllliiilllliiillll]

@@rexscipio3344 you need bAlls

[@frankiebarnes5515]

@@lllliiilllliiillll you need Jesus

[@yathercantillano3874]

Michael Colby comes across as one seriously disturbed individual. Type of guy the vast majority of people would take a glance at and severely underestimate the depravity of Michael's character. This is one dangerous dude.

[@lairdriver]

sticking a white hot piece of re-bar through someone's eye socket causing their head to explode is probably one of those disgusting ways to get killed. Let alone think of killing someone that way...these were some fucking demons in prison.

[@KenyanBunnie]

There are even worse demons working in cartels. So sick.

[@QuantumRizzX]

lairdriver that's not how it happened. they took acetylene torches to his face and that's what eventually blew his head up. another inmate was killed when a piece of rebar was driven through his head

[@IronMan_thno]

Two wrongs don't make a right, but will cause a riot. Cell block 4 deaths are on the heads of any officer that partook in the "snitch jacket" labeling.

[@jonirving5606]

Right. And the assholes who killed the "snitches" are okay. No. They are cowards who never took responsibility for anything in their lives.

[@RatatRatR]

You missed the first thing he wrote?

[@jonirving5606]

@@RatatRatR criminals are losers in the USA. A lot of opportunity in this country. If you wanna be a loser, then live in prison.

[@RatatRatR]

That's like a little child's take on the situation.

[@jonirving5606]

@@RatatRatR Sure. And your take is brilliant.

[@TRIIGGAVELLI]

Penitentiaries in the 60's, 70's and 80's looked like hell on earth.

[@debiokane9772]

been to Ryker's?

[@TRIIGGAVELLI]

@@debiokane9772 No. From Chicago

[@E.C.2]

They look like public schools from the outside.

[@TRIIGGAVELLI]

@@E.C.2 I went to HS on the south side of Chicago. We didn't have glass mirrors it was polished sheet metal lol. It was rough

[@E.C.2]

@@TRIIGGAVELLI My father (RIP) was a truck driver,used to go on the road w him. Everytime we passed a prison it looked like a public school.

[@1999glock]

No human being, criminal or otherwise should be subjected to this level of inhumanity. This is the darkest and deepest depths that a human being can sink to.

[@daughtersofisrael4617]

If the human is a rapist or child molester then they deserve death and the worst of the worst, that's way they get dumb mother fuckers....

[@maurohernandez1713]

@@daughtersofisrael4617 James 4:11-12

[@spiralrose]

NO LIVING THING should be subjected to this level of humanity. There, I fixed it for you :-).

[@Grilledcheeseofftheradiator]

@@spiralrose hey I am a former inmate, if you're interested we could chat ? U got any socials?

[@LMB222]

Absolutely agree. But the US seems too be - perhaps due to religious reasons - to be stuck in late 1890's.

[@sonwabomakinana7962]

It really send shivers down my spine to know that other human beings could treat other human beings so inhumane, so vile.

[@K.Adler1120]

We are all animals when it comes down to it. Imagine throwing a bunch of animals in a cell and mistreating them for years, then they break out. All of that frustration surfaces and turns to blind rage. Our justice system and prison system is completely inhumane. You treat people like animals, that’s exactly what you’ll get. Rest in Peace to those who lost their lives. This was a horrible tragedy

[@JOSEPHBARBOA-hs9pw]

I was in San ta to

[@JOSEPHBARBOA-hs9pw]

Yoy soy de Los paillas NM burque

[@tacticalcrusader3709]

Have you ever read a history book?

[@sinnombre-xs9ub]

Glad the BBC covered this, no one in US thought to. Thanks for posting

[@edwardmurphy6053]

sin nombre

[@ChristopherSaindon]

Bill Kurtis did this in the USA. BEFORE the BBC.

[@ChristopherSaindon]

..and WITHOUT that horrific music..

[@nmHispana]

I recorded it onto a VHS back when It was first time aired on American Justice.

[@palerider1959]

The U.S. version, which pre-dates the BBC version, is also on KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gV6apmaHadVpqpI

[@detroittechno7904]

The ex Latino correction office seems like a good dude. Hope he’s ok.

[@momma1taught1me1good]

he's not latino anymore?

[@momma1taught1me1good]

@rihardo123 im just making fun. you're right that it still doesn't sound right

[@munch9331]

@@momma1taught1me1good 😂😂😂

[@geegotti2835]

He ended up being convicted of fraud and embezzlement...

[@mrsnoop1820]

@@momma1taught1me1good it do be like that sometimes

[@elijahgarcia4610]

My grandpa was in this jail when it happened. Luckily he was alright but he would never talk about what he saw

[@kians8752]

He probably seen the worst but tried his best to forget it

[@Arkeze]

Pure and utter savages. What’s really horrifying is that they had that “snitch” strategy where either you snitched or they hung clothes on you adorned with the word snitch. So you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Just imagine how many people chose to snitch out of fear because they give you two options, snitch and be thrown into a protected cell or be thrown into population labeled as a snitch where you’ll probably be beaten and raped. So many people just made up information to give to not wear the snitch suit and it is those people who were in cell block four and who were murdered, many innocent. Just unreal. This is on guards and prisoners alike. Cause and effect.

[@binko969]

The entire system is crooked as a dogs hind leg. From egomaniacal judges, cops & CO’s to the politicians financially invested in the prison system. The bitch about it is there’s not a fucking thing we can do about it.

[@jongeunkim9254]

@@binko969 u can not not act like an animal

[@binko969]

Yeah well you should not be able to ruin someone’s life then take their life just cause you’re in the position to do so. That’s acting like an animal. If you lock a man up like an animal, treat him like an animal, beat him like an animal, feed him like an animal, he’s going to adapt to his environment and turn into an animal.

[@EventsKiosk]

The snitch jacket isn’t an actual jacket. It’s a metaphor. They just spread rumors about you. No clothing was labeled “snitch.”

[@justineadebisi8225]

They didn’t actually put jackets with the word snitch on them on people dude snitch jacket is just a term for someone with the reputation of being a snitch that’s all a snitch jacket means

[@ericvance2859]

My family lived just off of Highway 14, south of Santa Fe when this happened, about 6 miles north of the prison. We could see the water tower of the prison from there. Before and after this happened whenever I took the school bus to the homes of my friends that lived beyond the prison the bus would swing into the place as, apparently, some guards and whatnot had families that lived there... Gates, guards, etc. That was always scary, especially afterwards. As an aside one of my dearest childhood friend’s (they lived a few miles beyond the prison) mother was the head librarian there. It was cold and crystal clear when it all broke out, two days before I turned ten years old. At night we could see the glow of the fire coming from that atrocity. Helicopters kept us up at night, the constant sound of them and the search lights sweeping about, now and again coming through the bedroom window I shared with my two younger siblings, as the search for presumed escaped prisoners was carried out. I don’t actually know if people did escape, but I seem to recall that a number did. Lots of guns about and even the kind, gentle janitor at what was then called Sunset Elementary School was strapped for a number of days, including, if memory serves (which it may well not), during a band concert during or very shortly after the riot. My pops, now gone, was a pharmacist at the SF Indian Hospital and it was all hands on deck there, and at all hospitals in the region, to deal with the injured and what was presumed to be a massive rush of more. It was a horrible time that I will never, ever forget. We were told by our mom to see to our outside chores seeing to the goats, chickens and whatnot as quickly as possible, stay together and get back inside as soon as possible. That all had to be done and dad was caring for folks horribly injured and mutilated. Needless to say, I have no recollection of a celebration of my tenth birthday. I’m certain one took place, but it is gone from my memory. It was a cold, hard and scary time that I wish hadn’t happened, not least,certainly, for those that found themselves within the confines of the Hate Factory. Whilst certainly not among my most defining moments as a human, I wish, for the sake of those for whom it was, that it hadn’t taken place. That was absolutely horrific stuff, even for a kid with only a view from the sidelines. ✌️❤️🥂

[@julieann4616]

Thank you for sharing that!! ♥️♥️

[@fivefingerfullprice3403]

A little melodramatic, buddy.

[@selrahceipoop6914]

Its pretty crazy that the institution started threatening to label people as snitches and basically threaten their lives to get information out of them. The fact that they knowingly fed fuel to the barbaric act of snitch killing, fueled the violent atmosphere they were supposed to be cracking down on, and maintained that level of violence in the facility through threats just to serve their own agenda is one of the most disgusting and hypocritical things I've ever heard from a penitentiary

[@deehunt1004]

Imagine what else they did they aren’t telling us ,literally putting ppl lives at risk just like nothing wonder why they acted like animals . U treat ppl like animals don’t be surprised when they act like one when u release them !

[@Rugmunchersauce3]

You're really green if you think that doesn't still happen in loadsa jails. Police allover the World do it too, they don't care about no-one, they only care about getting promoted, they don't Care if some junkie who wouldnt hurt a fly gets beaten up or killed.

[@gregsullivan206]

Cops been doing that in and out of prison since the 60s

[@CR1xNM]

My heart goes out to the surviving inmates like my Uncle Chilo Maes, Tommy Barboa and countless other O.G.s. The guards had it coming. I was in Central Los Luna's in 89 and one of the guards that worked there was a guard in the riot. He got gang raped and got his own night stick stuck up his ass and left it there and they had him crawling around naked on a leash. The O.G.s said he was a real asshole. Karma is a bitch que-no? 😂😂

[@nfaisnfgay]

@@CR1xNM Yeah all you did was prove why you deserved to be locked up. Not smart folk lol

[@DATxDUDExDOMO]

After season 2 ofBehind bars rookie year i had to check this out

[@samanthafarnum7908]

I have been watching behind bars rookie year for a couple days now

[@dizzyhole666]

Douche bag Mangin would have taken care of this if he was here back in the day lol

[@baileyxxx1376]

domo tmc same that’s literally where I came from

[@mey.3574]

lmao same

[@the_hulk392]

Same.shit brought me here

[@romerogypsee1]

i was in 10th grade and living just a mile away from this prison when this happened. i remember the smoke from the building fires. i remember the horrifying possibility of the inmates escaping and coming to my house! i told myself that i would never commit a crime and end up in prison!

[@marsharowaihy6725]

I watched this documentary years ago & it’s always stuck with me. It’s horrific

[@tvremote1234]

"When I was released from my cell the first place I went was the pharmacy and... and then went and proceeded to consume it and everything I had gotten from the pharmacy" LOL

[@mesozoicperiodvlogs8323]

Looool

[@trellruss9744]

Lol. Better than killing fellow inmates just cause.

[@eddilovee]

@@Lemon_squee though the kid who snitched for getting raped didn’t deserve it. Many others did.

[@crikker9447]

Everybody that could get up was getting down

[@Steve-zm2zp]

THAT MF THE ULTIMATE BADASS SUNGLASSES ON HIS MUGSHOT

[@dlane7539]

This shows how absolutely disturbed some humans can be.

[@rachelschwebach7566]

I am from a small town about 40 miles from the old New Mexico State Prison. I remember the riot of 1980 very well. It was hell on earth. Those men have PTSD.

[@StephenWitharose]

"I've been to cell block 4 before." Coldest thing I ever heard.

[@Drozzzable]

Really? That's gotta be quite the experience. Did you see the body outline of the prisoner who was burned so badly it was burned into the concrete?

[@StephenWitharose]

@@Drozzzable It's the Micheal Stephens quote.

[@Drozzzable]

@@StephenWitharoseoh yeah? I've watched this documentary a few times I should have picked up on that quote. Thanks for the clarification

[@andrewhoyle1521]

What a piece of shit

[@kgbslim8618]

It's Michael Colby not whatever tf u said above ...

[@shanecamozzi4494]

The inmate at 30:00 in is Leroy "Tiger" Vigil. He was charged along with five other inmates for six separate rapes of another prison inmate in 1977. The raped inmate was sent to prison for violating his probation for a marijuana offence. Vigil was convicted of six counts of criminal sexual penetration and given 60-300 years. Interestingly enough, one of the inmates that he went into cell block 4 to kill during the riot, Jimmy Joe Vela, was also convicted in those same rapes and given six consecutive 10-50 year sentences.

[@afghantrucker]

How did you find this info? I want to know more about some of the other victims.

[@shanecamozzi4494]

@@afghantrucker I signed up to a website that allows me to navigate old newspapers. Every time I post the link it gets deleted for some reason. Anyways, I search for names and such and have been able to find a lot of information on many of these guys as well as other inmates from other prison videos and documentaries.

[@shanecamozzi4494]

@@afghantrucker I'll post more info on some of these other guys soon.

[@frenchfriedrat]

James Perrin was convicted of the horrible assaults and murders of a young mother and her two little girls. He broke into their mobile home in Chaparral in the middle of the night and was in there with them for hours. He got what he deserved in Santa Fe.

[@shanecamozzi4494]

Is he the one Leroy Vigil was convicted of raping? Or another inmate in the documentary?

[@TheTobyOMG]

"They made us that way. They made us do it." Sounds like a lot of deflection for someone who wants to justify their murder. You didn't just murder guards, you murdered anyone you could get a hold of that you wanted. I hope that Hep B treats you well.

[@sherrycambridge1531]

You should try it some time, see how you end up

[@kimjongun2536]

@@sherrycambridge1531 nah I don't think he likes to murder people

[@sherrycambridge1531]

@@kimjongun2536 ok then

[@claytonbelcourt1472]

Ya that guy is a piece of shit..

[@spencergregory8049]

He'd be long dead by now. This doc is 21 years old

[@wesleywesson]

is it just me or did that song get really annoying?

[@lukehiler2969]

Agreed, I got sick of hearing it every five minutes.

[@stephenkoehler9045]

+Carey Mcclure yeah !gives me chills

[@m.h.2202]

ON THE BLUUUUUUU

[@ryanharrington6389]

I can make it stop. JUST SEND IN 4 EASY PAYMENTS OF 19.99 AND U WILL NOT HEAR IT AGAIN.

[@seniorjulio]

yes. blue grass and ralph stanley are garbage. im sorry they didnt put trendy billie eilish in the background.

[@Nick-wd3he]

"That's what the administration made us". "He testified against me in my trial"...yes, the snitch is the reason you're in prison, you couldn't be in prison on account of your own actions.

[@willstanton6169]

Exactly. No accountability. In addition to that fact, this dude just rubs me the wroooooong way! Incurable Hep B? Karma is a B***H, yeah?

[@patrickbarry7711]

He was the biggest P.O.S in this whole documentary.

[@mablewoods-z5i]

@@willstanton6169 karma has nothing to do with it, he got hep B because he partook in the gang raping of guards, sexual diseases are very common in prison

[@willstanton6169]

Well, AIN'T life a big ol' B***C? Looks to me like this dude got P R E C I S L E Y....what HE had COMING. He wasn't in prison for singing off-key in the church choir, believe it. And God KNOWS what he did during his years there, and the 3 days of that riot!

[@travisbickle7297]

Dormitory style prisons? Who thought that was a good idea?

[@Mommaatoz]

Today in 2018, Alabama still has dormitory style prisons. And the conditions are deplorable.

[@ogarnogin5160]

Those dorms look like torture

[@orestes67]

It's cheap

[@cleanserene6330]

California still has dorms

[@killerfrank8974]

Good question. An even better one is who thought it was a good idea to put the most hardened and dangerous inmates in there with the non-violent ones????!!!!!

[@rebeccatrujillo2680]

As a New Mexico native i grew up within 50 miles of the prison. In fact I was born the day after this happened. I've always been fascinated with the resilience of the survivors. My heart aches for Mr Mendoza and the surviving guards who were just trying to make a living. The inmate in the white shirt and glasses is 1 of the coldest individuals I've seen.

[@brushybillroberts4204]

...where abouts, in grew up not to far from the pen. Los Cerrillos, the pen was on county road 14...rode by it when my parents drove into Santa Fe...

[@rebeccatrujillo2680]

Sadly it still is. 😔

[@alexandernelson647]

I feel for Larry Mendoza. At first, I thought he looked like an evil inmate. But after hearing him, he was so sad about what happened and the horrific torturing, mutilation and murders that he saw and experienced. The fact that the prison did the "snitch system" with putting a jacket with snitch written on the jacket, was horrible to do to them. The torches left behind was a horrible thing to overlook. How stupid and evil some of the guards were. There was the horrific beatings and tortures against inmates and visa versa. I really feel for Larry Mendoza, though. He still looks scared and anguished.

[@ingermatthews2667]

Larry Mendoza is my Uncle, I was 12..... I was at home in California watching the news. My mother turned it off and informed me my favorite uncle was being held hostage. We all got close to God real fast. The happenings of this event will never be forgotten. 😪 The demons were real God's word kept my Uncle alive 🙌

[@mnpd3]

I've driven through NM a number of times, staying overnight in various locations. Maybe it's just the places I saw, but NM is the most thuggish-looking places I've ever been. I noticed the place was trashy and unkempt, as were the people. I've been in Wal-Marts all over the country, but the one I entered in Albuquerque to get a dog food and few other things for the RV looked like I'd stepped into gangland. And, this was a Wal-Mart!! My wife stayed in the RV and told me not to ever leave her again when in NM. I told her that inside was worse. Never stopped in NM anywhere that I wasn't armed and wishing I had eyes in the back of my head. I think the state should be returned to Old Mexico.... it's about there anyway.

[@tonygriego6382]

My uncle was a prison guard there at that time, the s*** he would tell us would curl your toes.

[@jamessicard6682]

Thank you. I'm currently seeking anyone who was there during the riot for a film I'm doing. If you know anyone who may be willing to speak with me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[@huhhah6757]

Well tell your uncle to make a KZbin channel and tell us them stories I would like to here them no joke

[@malcolmbaldwin5735]

was your uncle one of the 7 booty bandits ?

[@265hemi7]

I bet he bashed inmates ! All prison staff are the same ! The officers . Medical staff. They all abide by a code of silence not to report corruption/ mistreatment !

[@jamessicard6682]

@PNM Oldschool Yes. Thank you. I would be very interested in speaking with him about possibly making a documentary about his experience. My email is [e-mail]. Would you please contact me so that we may discuss this matter in private? Thank you.

[@noahmcdarby5417]

You can tell that dude knows what he did and he feels horrible and it probably eats him every single day when he tries to say he has no remorse. Yea fr, dont kid yourself.

[@sicardjlful]

Colby's line is funny, "Anyone who could get up was getting' down."

[@DarrenBonJovi]

sicardjlful "What did you take?"…"……………………..….drugs…"

[@brokewrench1]

Colby was and is a total douche bag. And yes, I knew him.

[@QuantumRizzX]

absinthe64 was he the Aryan that forced that inmate in cb4 to cut off the black guys head? he has a line when asked if he's been in cb4 before "ive been in cell block 4 before" and sips his coffee. I wish they had more of an angle on who did what during the riot. I'd like to know everything that happened

[@saravelasquez3650]

absinthe64, I cannot find anything on how he was released. and your use of tense leads me to believe he passed away?

[@elliotgregory3356]

Hi absinthe64. May i ask a question please? I can remember watching this waaaaayy back in 2000. It stuck with me and one of the reasons it stuck with me was Michael Colby. You mentioned you knew him? Is he still around, bear in mind i guess he was in his late 40's,early 50's then and i would imagine he has led a hard life. What was he like? arrogant, sadistic or a victim of "life" I seem to remember reading that when he went there in the early 70's a lot of his cousins were already in there. I am from the UK so no real ties to any of this but as i mentioned he stuck in my head. What did he do when he got out?

[@TommyBlanton]

This is a shocking documentary because of the sheer brutality that occurred during the riot, but it is lacking in the detail of the conditions that led up to the riot. It says nothing of the corruption, incompetence, or willful neglect of the prison's administration, guards, and other officials leading all the way up to Governor King. I watched this documentary to learn more after reading The Devil's Butcher Shop by Roger Morris, but Morris covered all of the dirty details which the people who created this film either did not research, failed to document, or felt it better to leave out for sake of simply blaming the caged animals. This horrific event is truly a stain on New Mexico's history.

[@jonhartley6353]

I wouldn't say that it says "nothing" of those things. The brutality of the guards, the terrible living conditions, the deceitful and manipulative "snitch jacket" program are all covered. It's a 48-minute doc; it's not going to cover everything exhaustively.

[@shananagans5]

Tommy Blanton The book Politics Of A Prison Riot is good too. I was a criminology/forensic psychology student starting in 1988 & there was still lots of talk & research on the riot going on at that time. You are absolutely right. This is a stain on NM history. It's still reverberating through the New Mexico DOC to this day.

[@Ck-io4hs]

These people were murders before prison what’s to stop them in prison

[@ghostface4250]

*I remember this security guard at high school said he was a CO working there and got PTSD after the riot happened*

[@thepotcallinthekettle4409]

I was done with that fucking song after the 3rd time.

[@sweetlotusrain]

Lol true

[@randymillhouse791]

Sean Hannity will use it to open his radio show.

[@redits7667]

😅😅😅

[@miggans21012]

It was better without any music.

[@mjgasiecki]

Lmao…

[@JGAbstract]

Last thing I would do while being surrounded by psycho murderers is zone out on drugs...

[@nebula60]

Nah I’d get high as a kite if I knew I was gonna die sometime soon.

[@myway5536]

He was the biggest psycho

[@Ekdrink]

Only the flunkies do shit in prison

[@spiralminus]

I was 9 year's old when this happened. I could see the smoke comming from the facility from my grandmother's house. I could see the helicopters hovering above. The most smoke I've ever seen before that was from zozobra.

[@bewareofdog8301]

I was born this year cant remember it but i have seen the burn body marks Brutal

[@zacharythompson9791]

This is straight out of a horror movie. Damn.

[@TheLordHighXcutioner]

Violent prisoners should be put down for their crimes.

[@andrewjackson7758]

Better to die quickly by noose than being butt fucked til your shitter goes loose.

[@Mike-dy8sj]

Lord High Xcutioner yes. we'll start with you. thinking about putting people "down." sounds dangerous to me.

[@josereta5726]

Andrew Jackson LMFAO 😂😂😂😂😂

[@SeanP7195]

I believe the shoplifter guy who suffered a dreadful end to his life was 29, so he wasn't a kid, but my God, what a horrific life he must have had. I have many regrets in my life and the consequences of them, but this is beyond horrible. No man should ever have bad choices end this way.

[@eddilovee]

By looking at his picture you can tell he’s not fit for prison.

[@dannysullivan8929]

I couldn't disagree more. I believe that 29 is a kid. Everything is relative. I'm in my 50s and there are people who are in their 70s and eighties who still call me a kid to this day and tell me that I still have my whole life ahead of me. So to me 29 is definitely just a kid and much much much too young to die, no matter what kind of death.

[@SeanP7195]

@@dannysullivan8929 of course 29 is not a kid that’s ridiculous

[@SeanP7195]

@@dannysullivan8929 and if some 70 year old calls a guy in his 50s a kid he is talking down to you and you should put him in check immediately.

[@dannysullivan8929]

@@SeanP7195 WRONG AGAIN!!! He is telling me that I am still young and can still either turn my life around or make it better than it already is. And 29 is TOTALLY A KID, of course not the same as a 7 year old kid, but a kid nonetheless. You are obviously a very negative and fatalistic person. You better check yourself.

[@joeyxl3456]

Aww that poor Guard. My heart goes out to him. I'm reading the book The Hate Factory about this. Hell came to life there.

[@jimmychanbers2424]

Also read the devil's butcher shop.

[@kevinpiacente3456]

Thank u for the name of the book

[@nikispaniki]

The Hate Factory is an insiders look. People ended up in Max because lesser security facilities were full and odd administrative rules would rotate small timers thru Max. The place ran into the sudden overcrowding when NM like most of the country starting locking up every drug offense.

[@kevinpiacente3456]

@@nikispaniki imagine if people just stopped doing drugs we wouldn't have to lock them up

[@steve155c]

I've never heard any kid brag, "My dad is the toughest inmate in Central Prison." It's a total loser situation. Don't even mess with crime.

[@Fathervinyard]

exactly lol i pride myself in being able to stay out of prison

[@yokokurama3]

.... I'll stfu about that then 😂

[@jeffreylasky2737]

What is forgotten Gov. Bruce King was completely asleep at the helm during this whole thing He never got any of the blame.

[@paulflores1144]

And then he became Gov. again about a decade later..SMH

[@brushybillroberts4204]

...bruce king was an idiot. I was stationed in Yuma Arizona at the time. My mom wrote me about it, I couldn't believe this would happen. But that can was overcrowded, I lost a few friends in that fiasco. I grew up about 20 miles from the pinta, grew up in Los Cerrillos, used to ride the bus by there on the way to school in Santa Fe. The bus even picked up some of the kids who's dad was a guard and lived on sight. Hurt loosing some friends who were in there for petty shit, sad situation...😟 Real name; carlos romero...

[@adeptusmechanicus1029]

Shit usually tends to roll downhill in a heirarchy of authority

[@spencergregory8049]

@@brushybillroberts4204 King did his best to not take any of the blame. Watch Death in a Southwest Prison on here. He takes zero blame. Typical self serving politician

[@lacymarie78]

I was way too young when he was governor, but just watching him in the documentaries now that I’m grown up, I can’t stand the way he responded to the riot. He tried to deflect any blame for the riot onto his predecessor. He was such an asshole.

[@mookeychase0907]

The prison "De-humanized both keepers and kept"

[@buckfiden5171]

Relentlessly popping up in my recommended over the past week or so. Here I go.....

[@justaprickdoingprickthings8135]

That Colby guy is honestly scary af, he was definitely on the kill squad and was even one of the leaders.

[@Nutmeg142]

My thoughts too.

[@thekentuckyrifleman]

Definitely, and was granted immunity under the deal the state made with the inmates and a transfer

[@shawnbergman6558]

Stone cold killer

[@lacymarie78]

Funny thing is he ended up being stuck there after being promised a transfer. The Documentary Death in a Southwest Prison made after the riot, showed him still being there with Jack Stevens in the prison yard @@thekentuckyrifleman

[@gordonscott6180]

People sometimes called the inmates "animals." OK, fine. They're animals. If a bunch of animals escape the zoo and kill a bunch of people, who's fault is it?

[@mind-numbingtasks1575]

I have watched a lot of truly terrifying cases of mass murder, I have watched this particular episode several times and I must say that these events stand out in my mind as uniquely horrifying in the evil and cold-blooded manner in which it was carried out. Those men waiting to be tortured and mutilated with nowhere to go. It seems that hell was literally on earth during that instance. It opens your eyes to the reality of the darkness that exists in "all" men when you pack them in like sardines.

[@margaretfiester3689]

I just can't condone this level of violence and brutality. I understand the overcrowding problem. It's real. It was not fun detoxing from dope on the floor of Henrico jail with 50 other bitches next to me. Being thrown in the hole is real. In a turtle suit. For 11 days. I get the anger and frustration. I just can't get beyond the torture. It's obscene.

[@SinewRending]

​@@margaretfiester3689*Read The Hate Factory. Gives you some insight about the mentality of the convicts who committed the atrocities. Also read The Devil's Butcher Shop.*

[@doloreschansey9556]

that level of violence was from the drugs they ransacked. Amphetamines do that to you when you overdose.

[@Sylveon1002]

The images & accounts of what went down are definitely #2 most horrifying that i’ve ever seen in a documentary. #1 would have to be the raw, unedited “Concentration Camps” footage that was captured by the Military who discovered the camps on accident played at the Nuremberg Trials.

[@gowkie3940]

Narrator: "They burnt through the bars, tortured him with a blowtorch and killed him by piercing a rod through his skull". IN THE BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUE OF THE EVEEEEEEEEEEEEENIN'

[@ajack1312]

Whoever did the soundtrack for this documentary deserves a kick in the head hahaha.

[@E.C.2]

I like the song.

[@chuco915C]

Lmfao!

[@tacticalcrusader3709]

The song is actually pretty cool but yeah the timing of its use throughout the documentary was kinda silly.

[@frankj.l.g.7922]

This was the most mind-blowing documentary I've ever seen can't believe I've never heard of it before!

[@CarlosAlvarado-sf6km]

I was hired on at a Sheriff’s Dept county jail in North Texas in like 1990. During the training + Orientation class they made us watch this documentary to kind of. let you know what you’re getting into corrections job - I think ? It scared everyone a little bit ?

[@iby914]

@@CarlosAlvarado-sf6km - They made you watch a documentary that wasn't even made then? I'd be mind blown as well.

[@urge251980]

@@iby914 probably talking about death in a southwest prison or shakedown in santa fe

[@mrgallagher7072]

@@iby914 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dariahughes5564]

Did anyone notice how many things were allowed ( plastic mirrors, windows, pillows, etc) ?? These things would be used as weapons, kite strings, hanging materials. Wow have things changed! Or maybe prisoners have changed. Who knows.

[@jose8a864]

I was their during the riot. It was scary ass hell some inmates said to me " give me you're asshole dry or die" I got release 15 years later and never went back.

[@debgib007]

Did you give it up Dry?

[@jose8a864]

@@debgib007 the only thing you need to know is alive.

[@mrgallagher7072]

Booty bandits TOOK that shit

[@Nick-cz2qq]

OOOOONNN THE BLUUUUUUUUUUUE SIDE! Dear god never gonna get that outta my head

[@Drozzzable]

Hahahaha...its a crazy ass sounding song but somehow its perfect in this context

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

ON THE BLUUUUUUUUUUUE sorry just had to remind you a year later in case you forgot

[@ricanqueen3083]

😁😁😁 Same here !!

[@ricanqueen3083]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 🤣🤣🤣

[@Nick-cz2qq]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 lol

[@bikelifepov9617]

So many souls lost in this building that need to be freed.

[@0311apache]

I read the book, The Hate Factory. A book I bought up in Farmington. That book describes a lot of the horror that happened in that hellhole that isn't told in this documentary. I suggest you all read it. I finished it in a day. A real page turner.

[@seniorjulio]

tell me again where you bought the book? and from whom? please elaborate, did the nice lady in farmington have motherly features?

[@TrentMcNary420]

@@seniorjulio she was a fine pole smoker

[@contactkeithstack]

Audiobook is on KZbin

[@joeytrimble1558]

you feel better you got your attention for the day?

[@jar3987]

Joey Trimble i read the book, a dude got melted to the floor by a blow torch and the mark is still there, it’s sick

[@benblair7510]

Capital punishment would cure this at every prison In The USA

[@borninvincible]

Do you read books? Because if you did you would know that would you just said is absolutely false. I bet you are a Christian too.

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

@@borninvincible calling out Christians while you're not one yourself.

[@borninvincible]

@@yucatansuckaman5726 they stink and are easy to spot

[@ryanhorsley9965]

6:17 is disturbing. "They had some poor guy dancing on the table. And then, after a while they took him down...you could smell the feces, the human feces, and I knew right away what was happening..."

[@turtleslikeme69]

Jesus Fucking Christ that part flew over my head.

[@mcdonaldsfreewifi7262]

LEMON MERINGUE Help me out, what happened?

[@mcdonaldsfreewifi7262]

LEMON MERINGUE What happened??

[@jl9554]

@@mcdonaldsfreewifi7262 The man was raped.

[@jl9554]

@ It was a gang rape.

[@zeem.8656]

I'm here because of Investigation Discovery. They have Larry Mendoza talk about his time at the prison in a series called HOUSE OF HORRORS: KIDNAPPED and the title of the episode is Murderer's Row. Larry was divorced a year after the riots he implied because he just could not get it together. He and the other guards were not allowed to go back to the prison nor to perform any work as a prison guard.

[@TheLordHighXcutioner]

Do you know if that episode is uploaded anywhere?

[@brentkdaniels]

You take the most violent person, and put him with the most violent persons, and then treat them like crap. They will bound together and take over.

[@justinmix143]

“.......................................I been in cell block 4 before.” That was just bone chilling

[@getshorty7549]

I don't care what you have to say about these criminals or "wastes of human beings" -- NO ONE deserves to be treated this way. If you didn't feel appalled at the crime scene photos from CB 4 or feel empathy for the survivors who clearly are still experiencing PTSD some 33 years later, you have the brain of a reptile.

[@mencot89]

getshorty75 i hope you also dont care what kind of PTSD these criminals and gang members have inflicted to members of the public like u and me. They dont think about that when they did it dont they

[@cumulonimbus583]

getshorty75 Who gives a fuck what happened to these murderers? No fucking sympathy. Who would care about assholes commit such horrible crimes? Fuck them and who would feel sorry for snitches? Snitches deserve everything that happens to them so I don’t blame the criminals for getting revenge on them.

[@roberthoard639]

Fuck these guys

[@lsudx479]

Who are you getting mad at? Who's disagreeing? Your attitude is the problem here, pal. Stop talk fighting with nobody.

[@TheNinjasniper12]

@PanQuakes I'm willing to argue they deserve a hell lot more than that

[@Dbodell8000]

Prison guard has got to be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

[@skinnycol809]

Most of the time the fuckers set them selves up to get killed too

[@Tomorrison28]

How long until we have robot guards?

[@stephenlfda5956]

What those murderers did to those men... I hope the killers burn in hell forever. I hope hell exists so they can pay...

[@dizzyhole666]

Stephen /lfda be careful for what you wish for... you might be going there too 😂😂😂

[@shelbyfarmer9]

Hell not real smh

[@jeffreyadams8345]

I hope so too, slow deaths to all

[@tinahuff2972]

@@jeffreyadams8345 hell is real

[@ricardoahr5459]

Hell ain't real, sadly. God(s) is(are)n't real either. It's a facade made up by Schizophrenic People in various areas of Earth to Justify fucking little kids and child abuse. Some Religious people are nice, but a bunch of them are ass.

[@wcg6857]

12:09 I honestly felt heartbroken for that man. Yah he's a criminal, but at the same time it is just not right to put someone in a room like that.

[@sahirdamani1264]

They still have rooms like that Atleast in Texas Jails, except there’s light but everything else is the same

[@rebeccaporte3008]

It is horrible. And those kinds of cell set ups are.still around. For days and days and weeks they are kept in isolation that is absolutely cruel

[@spiralrose]

Solitary confinement is considered torture. It’s horrible and should never be practiced. People can go insane.

[@shotty2164]

Whoever made this loves this damn song lmao “on the bluuuuueeeeeeeeee……”

[@JoseJ-xu1de]

On the bluuuuuuue

[@estrellatenorio3584]

My dad was called in with the national guard. He remembers everything but doesn’t like talking about what he saw. I don’t know who it was but some of the soldiers were recently compensated ($$$) if they saw you suffered from ptsd. This was a couple years ago, idk if they are still doing it. That’s really the only time my dad went into details with me. He remembers the smell and all the blood. He remembers cleaning the blood off his boots, and people crying and screaming. They do tours for people now that that part of the pen is shut down. They say it’s haunted. I didn’t know it was this bad. I didn’t know my dad had to see and smell all of that. 🥺

[@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888]

Estrella Tenorio that's is sad

[@mrgallagher7072]

@@CR1xNM WORD

[@User_92020]

I was an astronaut, I was called in from the moon.

[@chrisr.9311]

I work as a correction officer and decided to watch this video because old timers would speak of it

[@tacticalcrusader3709]

How many inmates do you beat and torture a day?

[@arneyoga1204]

Sadistic guards + overcrowding of too many violent sociopaths = disaster

[@munch9331]

Don't forget guards leaving door unlocked for convenience and contractors leaving cutting torches in the prison.

[@PsilliPig]

The whole idea of rehabilitation of a rapist, child rapist, murder or child murderer is absurd. There is certainly a class of prisoner that is irredeemable. And a lot of people have hard childhoods, really hard, and still don't become the abuser themselves and go on to have good lives, so to hell with that idea. The violent are not the victims. In ancient times criminals were killed to take them out of the population, not to punish them. Letting these psychos out then back into the general population is idiocy. I'd like to see some of the sign toting bleeding hearts who want the death penalty gone spend a week in a medium or high security and not decide it would just be better to flood the supermax's and get it over with.

[@angusvanhalen2886]

why in the hell is there a guy in a max security prison for shoplifting???

[@BUDDYSHADOW]

Because he stole an entire shopping center.

[@elliotgregory3356]

In the 70's US president Gerald Ford launched a tough in crime program. Didn't matter what your crime was you were locked up. Period. Mario Urioste unfortunately was arrested during those years

[@thekentuckyrifleman]

My brother did 5 years for a burglary of an abandoned home. He served all of it in Eastern here in KY. Death Row and the Criminal Psychological center are at Eastern. He was an 18 year old who'd never been in a fight before. When I picked him up he was fucking warrior

[@el34glo59]

​​@@thekentuckyrifleman absolutely ridiculous that he did that much time at that place. Good for him coming out tough as nails, but still not right

[@cscott0722]

That doesn’t seem right to me

[@troypowers6136]

The correction officers that was held hostage they was severely beaten and gang raped.. imagine being screwed by 40 convicts that haven't had none in 15-20 years. Damn.. several of them was damaged the rest of their lives..

[@954REMI]

Your English is horrible

[@deenice9169]

Not just the fact you’re being raped…but now think of the dangers of STI’s. These dudes doing the raping most likely were not having safe sex outside of prison and we’re having rampant homosexual sex in prison. So the risk of catching a terrible STI was really high. I mean the short inmate dude with glasses had Hepatitis B meaning he most likely got it from banging other dudes (whether consensually or forcefully by rape).

[@pathat8869]

Were the officers females or males?

[@logannance2153]

There budget only allowed them to purchase the rights to the song "On The Blue Side of Evening"

[@kendavid891]

@21:40 my heart goes out to that officer.humanity crumbling Down

[@chuzzrocket]

These men all have massive, massive PTSD.

[@ZamiraC]

Came here from behind bars 1st year rookie this is honestly so sad the people dying and people now who are right next to the old jail having to worry that it might happen again. My the boy who shoplifted r.i.p he didn’t deserve to die

[@lil_billiam69]

I came here bc Exodus sung a song about this riot and I never realized how brutal it actuall was. Tragic

[@kaspersaldell]

Same here!!

[@ahuxley123]

Funny how most of the guards swore they treated the prisoners with nothing but respect and proper discipline. The parole officer really showed his support and compassion for all.

[@jongeunkim9254]

Yawn. The prisoners were animals and should have been executed

[@lagaylamcgahee3556]

what's sad is, 34 is actually a pretty low number for the size of the facility and and the amount of time that lapsed.

[@brians7901]

This is right up there with Gladiator days as the best prison documentary ever

[@huhhah6757]

The guy nail it with "all the forces of hell was unleashed" that pretty much summed it all up

[@destinycopeland4235]

My friend also told me that you could still see the marks from the inmate that was decapitated with a shovel and the burn mark from the inmate that was burned to death by a blow torch. They could never get rid of that.

[@AcherontiaStyx]

There's pictures of the marks, it's real

[@Rockin_Ross]

“When the bluuuuueeeee”...it took them 45 minutes to change the music. 😑

[@reflection8578]

It’s scary that some of the inmates who were interviewed are in civilian clothes. I hope the guy in sunglasses is still locked up.

[@Lolmeep]

All those inmates should have been lined up against the wall and executed afterwards. Unredeemable human beings.

[@brushybillroberts4204]

... I think the guy in said sun glasses got out in 1999, has some incurable disease or some bullsh!t...🐂💩

[@thekentuckyrifleman]

He died in prison a few years ago. Dude in the hat and glasses is still a free man

[@johncouri3455]

That documentary made me feel sick beyond words. What a tragedy.

[@christophermorrissey878]

This is why capital punishment is the only way don’t lock people up for ever just get rid of them

[@normfreilinger5655]

Locking people up forever is a form of cruel & unusual punishment

[@robertjensen1048]

Call me cold, but not once have I ever lost a second of sleep over someone dying in a penitentiary.

[@splinterbyrd]

People are sent to prison as punishment not for punishment