The Nation - News from Aug. 20, 1985
A group of 83 inmates barricaded themselves inside two dormitories during a search for weapons at New Mexico’s state penitentiary, south of Santa Fe. Control of both sections was recovered after about an hour, when prison officials fired tear gas into one of them. The rebellion came less than 24 hours after inmates at the maximum-security institution seized a guard at knifepoint, beat him and held him hostage for two hours. The hostage incident Sunday night ended with the inmates issuing to the warden a list of complaints about conditions at the prison.
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