Inmates in an overcrowded maximum security cell block at the New Mexico State Prison in 1979

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Maximum security inmates inside their 6x9 cell in New Mexico State Prison near Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1979. One month after this picture was taken, the inmates rioted and killed 32 other inmates.

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Photo credit: © Buddy Mays / Alamy / Afripics
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