THE 1980 NEW MEXICO PRISON RIOTS: WHO IS TO BLAME?

The Alarmist

Comedy, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Who’s to blame for the 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot?

This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes Kate Downey, host of the CRAMPED podcast, to discuss the 1980 Prison Riot in New Mexico. They’re joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early. Did a Snitching System, designed for inmates to rat out fellow inmates for contraband, and abused by the guards lead to an even more hostile environment? Pair that with deplorable living conditions and ongoing cruel and unusual punishment and things are bound to go wrong. Up on the board: No Maintenance, Guard Complacency and Contraband Hooch.

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0:10.9	Well, that's actually cheating.
0:14.5	You're not allowed to do an audio book for the book club.
0:18.1	Well, I'm not.
0:19.0	You just said you are.
0:20.7	I was joking. You know what?
0:22.2	Point two five speed. Yeah, that's barely listening. I'm reading it, guys. I'm reading. Don't worry about
0:28.7	how I collect knowledge, either through my ears or through my eyes. Or if I eat, eat books.
0:34.5	If I eat books and that's how I get the information, then maybe that works to.
0:38.2	You just absorb it. We started this book club so you could read more. I know, but. So you can finish
0:45.1	books. Well, maybe we got to ask our alarmion. Is there a difference between the audio
0:49.8	experience? I think that's a great question. Maybe we poll and say, is Chris actually reading if he's listening to us?
0:55.0	If he's listening.
0:55.5	Okay, that will be the first poll that I set up.
0:58.2	In fact, I'm going to write that down because I don't want to forget.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:01.7	Because we will come back to this, Chris.
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1:07.9	Now on to our episode.
1:10.2	I was born with a special gift. The ability to mentally
1:14.4	transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own brain. My therapist calls my
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