Starting at 1:40am on this day in 1980, and for the next 36 hours, 1156 inmates take control of the overcrowded, rat- and cockroach-infested Penitentiary of New Mexico, 15 miles south of Santa Fe. Twelve officers are taken hostage, some beaten and raped. Dozens of inmates are brutally tortured. 33 are murdered. Authorities gain control and the cellhouses and dormitories central to the riot are permanently closed. In the decades that follow, the New Mexico prison system tightens security, hires more guards for higher pay, and becomes increasingly privatized, with companies like CoreCivic securing long-term, rising-cost contracts.