This is True Consequences, a true crime and mystery podcast with stories based in New Mexico in the American Desert Southwest.

Welcome back to True Consequences.

I'm your host, Eric Carter-Londine.

Today we're talking about the New Mexico prison riot, one of the worst riots in the history of the United States. I also have a special guest on my show today. Her name is Lydia

Wolberg, and I've known her for over 30 years. Lydia's been a really good friend of mine, and I'm

glad that she was able to join me and tell the story of the New Mexico prison riot. A couple

housekeeping things just before we get into the episode.

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Thank you for being a Zia supporter. I appreciate you. Okay, I think that's all we have. So this is

going to be a little bit different from some of my other episodes that I've done. I'm actually

really excited about today. I've been waiting for today for a few months. I have a special

guest with me here, who is somebody that I've known for, I would say, probably

30 years now, maybe close to 30 years.

That gives away our age and makes us seem really old.

Speak for yourself.

But my friend Lydia Wahlberg is here with me, and she's one of my closest friends that I've known for

most of my life and when she found out I was doing this podcast, we talked about possibly

maybe doing an episode together. Lydia recommended doing the New Mexico Prison Riot from 1980,

which was something that I wasn't super excited to talk about because it's really gruesome and really grisly.

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