but in 1980, pnm was site of one of the deadliest u.s. prison riots where inmates killed 33 of their own. >> jumped off february. almost by accident. big thing i couldn't get out of my head is they actually did it. we actually took the place over. >> james whittington survived the riot to return to the old main facility to show our producers what he witnessed. >> 27 years ago when i got up out of here. i didn't think i would ever see it again. leadership of the inmates decided hey, you know, this control center is takable. there was a huge industrial fire extinguisher that used to sit on one of these walls on hooks. three individuals lifted that industrial fire extinguisher off and set work on this window right here. the window began to give in. all three of these windows were taken out. >> once they broke that, they had access to the entire facility. they had full control. >> this is where it all turned bad after they busted up and got their hands on the dope. >> there's different kinds of psychotic drugs and whatever. and everybody was

salonpas. >>> searches are routinely conducted throughout pnm.from level two informants, officers find two homemade syringes in the dorm. >> captain. >> no. >> whenever we find something on that extent, obviously there's got to be -- there's got to be some type of narcotics around. >> right. >> i do have a list of inmates that are notorious for involving themselves in illegal drug activity over here. so maybe they'll be a good team. >> a good place to start. >> good job. >> i'm sure there are some inmates that will be hurting tonight. >> yep. >> if we have inmates that have priors, what we'll do is go and select them randomly so where they don't have any time to clean themselves up. >> we'll need 106 pena. >> bring them to the gym. we'll centralize them here. we'll give them the one hour, as per policy that is required of them. >> gentlemen, you have one hour to submit a urine. >> yes, sir. >> watch grown men pee in a cup isn't a fun job. it takes up to about five minutes before the test actually proves positive or negative. actually you can prob

. >> and conrad finally leaves pnm.not the way he planned. >> you will be administered 50,000 volts which may cause you to self-urinate or self-defecate. do you understand? >> yeah. >>> although it's a new day, not much changes. at the penitentiary in new mexico, back in medical, the warden and deputy joanie brown pays conrad a visit. >> right now you're on suicide watch. >> i'm protesting. >> but you're using the system. if you're saying you aren't really going to commit suicide -- >> i didn't say that. i said i'm protesting. >> okay. all right. you're protesting by claiming that you're going to commit suicide? >> there's different ways of protesting. there's hunger strikes. my hunger strike didn't work. >> everything that you're doing, you end up paying for. you were almost to the door. what is your release date now? you have other reports pending. >> it's all because where they put me in that position -- >> it's always they put you in that position. you don't have to react that way. you don't. but you want an instant