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...several others were taken hostage during a mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon after the epic mayhem that took 33 lives in February at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe. That was a hard act to follow. But such is the condition of prisons, overcrowded and festering everywhere, that penal officials admit that other spectacular explosions could come at any time-and will, sooner or later. The national disgrace, in short, has grown into a combustible scandal...
Rosanne Piatt Santa Fe...
This was the gruesome scene that met some 200 heavily armed police and National Guardsmen last week as they charged into the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe after the most savage prison riot in U.S. history. Said Colonel Bill Fields, commanding officer of the National Guardsmen: "I was in World War II, and I've seen mutilated bodies. I don't remember anything as bad as this." The rampage lasted 36 hours and left at least 33 of the prison's 1,136 inmates dead. Two convicts were missing and probably dead, their bodies possibly...
Bruce King, Governor Santa Fe...