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How a Gun Walked Into New Mexico's Most Secure Prison
How a Gun Walked Into New Mexico's Most Secure Prison
A gun walked into a Level Six prison on July 4, 1987, and seven men walked straight out the front door in under two minutes - yet nobody knows how the weapon entered the facility. What began as a fireworks night turned into a 27-day manhunt that exposed unstaffed towers, dead motion sensors, and a system that had never recovered from a violent riot; how did one inmate get a gun past every safeguard?
In this episode, we follow the escape from the North Unit of the New Mexico State Penitentiary and the immediate aftermath, tracing how…
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