First Edition, First Printing. 1982. Dell Publishing Co / Paisano pub., New York. Near Fine. Possibly signed by author in pencil -W. G. Stone on title page- unverified signature (see photo). Mass Market Paperback. Unmarked text. Cover lies flat. Clean and bright with no rips, tears or stains. Binding tight and square. Light toning to pages. Classic true crime account of the 1980 New Mexico Penitentiary riot, one of the deadliest in U.S. history. Ships from USA quickly and with care.
SYNOPSIS:Brutalization begets brutalization. In Santa Fe to study penology with a mentality that would reform men, John Salazar instead found himself a hostage to it. When violence reigned, humanity vanished—and those who survived carried its marks forever. This is the inside story of the New Mexico Penitentiary Riot, the bloodiest prison uprising in American history.Source – Dell Publishing Co., 1982 Back Cover Text. The terror lasted for thirty-six hours. When it was over, thirty-three inmates were dead, all at the hands of their fellow convicts. It was an outbreak of inmate violence unequaled in the annals of prison uprisings. It happened at the Penitentiary of New Mexico—Time magazine called it “the nation’s most notorious prison.” W.G. Stone was there. He witnessed the beatings, the stabbings, the rape, the torture. “Tying the rope under his arms and around his chest, they strung him up on the basketball hoop for all to see. There he would hang for the rest of the riot…During those hours of madness that were to follow, inmates would come in and hack at his dangling corpse with knives, beat it with pipes, mutilating it so totally that it was beyond recognition, a raw, bloody mass of flesh, by the time the uprising was over.” --The Hate Factory
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