1990 Strangeways Prison riot and the remaining four including Alan Lord were acquitted. Taylor received a ten-year sentence, the maximum sentence the judge had the power to impose. The sentences received by the other defendants ranged from four years to nine-and-a-half years imprisonment. By the end of the trial the total cost of the Strangeways riot, including refurbishing the prison and the costs of the police inquiry and court case, had reached £112 million. The second trial began at the same court on 5 October 1992, and dealt with charges relating to the "battle for E wing" on 3 April 1990. There were fourteen
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot of Defiance", the lead-off track of the album Fabulous Disaster. The 2001 documentary "Behind Bars: Riot in New Mexico" covers the incident. By 2013 the state began conducting tours of the old prison. New Mexico State Penitentiary riot The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, in the state's maximum security prison south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in American history: thirty-three inmates died and more than two hundred were treated for injuries. None of the twelve officers taken hostage were killed, but seven suffered serious injuries caused by