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?A modern horror story told in graphic detail. Morris?s meticulous documentation traces prison corruption . . . proving the tragedy could have been avoided. I recommend this book without reservation.??Jack Anderson
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Man, what can I tell you? It was like the Devil had his own butcher shop, and you could get any cut you wanted.
New Mexico is the anomaly of the Republic. It is a century older in European civilization than the rest, and several centuries older still in a happier semi-civilization of its own. It had its little walled cities of stone before Columbus had grandparents-to-be; and it has them yet. The most incredible pioneering the world has ever seen overran it with the zeal of a prairie fire three hundred and fifty years ago; and the embers of that unparalleled blaze of exploration are not quite dead today. The most superhuman marches, the most awful privations, the most devoted heroism, the most unsleeping vigilance wrested this bare, brown land to the world; and having wrested it, went to sleep. The winning was the wake-fullest in historythe afternap eternal. It has never been wakenedone does not know that it ever can.
Charles Lummis, The Land of Poco Tiempo
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Isaiah 42:7
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FOR DAVID AND ZO
STEPCHILDREN EXTRAORDINARY, WHO TAUGHT ME ABOUT LOVE, WHO SHARED THE SKY AND MOUNTAINS, AND WHO, CHARACTERISTICALLY, WOULD WANT THIS BOOK AS WELL FOR OTHER DAUGHTERS AND SONS.
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The Devil's Butcher Shop
The New Mexico Prison Uprising
Roger Morris
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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Brief passages of this book have appeared in substantially different form in Playboy, the Santa Fe Reporter, and the Santa Fe New Mexican, and acknowledgment is gratefully given those publications.
Excerpt from "Penal Madness" by Ray Bremser. by Ray Bremser. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"The Little Man Who Wasn't There" by Hughes Mearns by Mrs. Petra Cabot. Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Petra Cabot.
Diagram of New Mexico State Penitentiary by John Trevor. 1980 Albuquerque Journal. Reprinted by permission of John Trevor, Albuquerque Journal.
Morris, Roger. The devil's butcher shop: the New Mexico prison uprising/Roger Morris. p. cm. Reprint. Originally published: New York: F. Watts, 1983. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-8263-1062-1 (pbk.) 1. New Mexico State Penitentiary. 2. Prison riotsNew Mexico-Santa Fe. I. Title. [HV9475.N62N45 1988] 365'.641dc 19 88-4005 CIP
Copyright 1983 by Roger Morris All rights reserved. University of New Mexico Press paperback edition reprinted 1988 by arrangement with the author. Fourth paperbound printing, 1994
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CONTENTS
Preface
1
Sources
5
Part I Foreshadow
7
Part II Takeover
55
Part III Carnage
91
Part IV Siege
117
Part V Surrender
163
Part VI Aftermath
187
Part VII Foreshadow
219
Epilogue
229
Notes
237
Index
255
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PREFACE
In the cold early hours after midnight on Saturday, February 2, 1980, convicts seized the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe, taking twelve guards hostage. When the institution was surrendered thirty-six hours later, rampaging inmates had murdered and mutilated almost beyond recognition at least thirty-three men, tortured eight of the hostage guards, and raped, wounded, and terrorized scores of other prisoners in the most savage penal riot in American history. Gutted by fire and by flooding, blood-soaked sewage, the penitentiary stood in the Sunday mountain twilight a dank and acrid charnel house, the butchery so complete that anthropologists would later sift through the muck for occasional shards of bone as if searching some prehistoric burial ground.
This is the story of that event, and of its origins and aftermath.
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