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Penitentiary of New Mexico
Penitentiary of New Mexico is a location reputed to be haunted in New Mexico, US. Its reputation comes from reported apparitions, unexplained phenomena and eyewitness accounts gathered over time.
Where is Penitentiary of New Mexico?
- Location
- New Mexico, US
- Type
- Prison
- Coordinates
- 35.562, -106.06
- Testimonies
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Why is Penitentiary of New Mexico said to be haunted?
The Penitentiary of New Mexico, south of Santa Fe, became the site of the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history on February 2-3, 1980, when inmates seized control of the facility for 36 hours. Overcrowding and tension had built for years before it exploded; when state police retook the prison, 33 inmates were dead, many killed by fellow prisoners in the chaos, and more than 200 injured, while the buildings themselves were left gutted and scarred. Corrections staff who have worked the complex since have described unexplained banging from empty cellblocks, a persistent sense of dread in the old Cell Block 4 where much of the violence occurred, and cold spots that linger regardless of season. "Some of those walls remember 1980 whether you want them to or not," a former officer once told a reporter covering the anniversary. Now operated under a modern classification system with roughly 790 inmates, the facility still carries the riot's history in both official memory and staff folklore.
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