Violent prison riot kept secret

It's September 23, 2017, a quiet, uneventful evening on Cellblock 3 at the Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility outside Clayton. But hang on. All hell is about to break loose. Prison surveillance cameras capture the entire incident beginning 9:05 p.m. when Correctional Officer Matt Shriner is seen patrolling along the Cellblock 3 catwalk. Shriner pauses at a locked cell, reaches in the door slot and is handed a folded note which he then surreptitiously passes to an inmate next door. Moments later the young security guard stops at cell #203 to chat with one of the most dangerous inmates in the entire prison system. You probably know his name. Clifton Bloomfield, a notorious serial killer who was sentenced to 195 years after he murdered five people in Albuquerque ten years ago. Correctional Officer Shriner exchanges a few words with Bloomfield through a slot in the locked cell door. Then, inexplicably, Shriner is seen on surveillance cameras unlocking Bloomfield's cell door. Why? Shriner later told investigators he didn't remember allowing the convicted killer out of his cell. With his cell door now opened, Bloomfield rushes the unarmed guard and overpowers him. Bloomfield uses a sharpened toothbrush as a shank to take the prison guard hostage. Bloomfield grabs Shriner's keys and proceeds to unlock random cell doors. Shriner is able to break away from Bloomfield's hold and dashes down the catwalk steps to the cellblock's ground level. He grabs his walkie-talkie and runs for help. With keys to the entire 40 man cellblock and no security guards, the inmates take control. Cells doors are unlocked and some of the most dangerous prisoners in the state go on a rampage. The main entry door to the unit is barricaded. Some prisoners use their new found freedom to settle scores. One inmate, a suspected informant, is assaulted in his cell, his throat slashed. Other inmates disable the cellblock's surveillance cameras. They start a fire, set off the sprinkler system and trash the cellblock. The prison's Riot Response Team assembles outside. Tear gas grenades are deployed through ports in the roof in an effort to regain control of the cellblock. However, the inmates place trash cans filled with water under the ports. The tear gas canisters fall harmlessly into the water. Only after the security force is able to knock over the barrels of water using explosive grenades are they able to effectively flood the cell block with tear gas. About an hour after the uprising began the prison's security force, dressed in riot gear, is able to regain control. The entire cell block is declared a crime scene. Inmates are rounded up, handcuffed and escorted one by one to the prison's day room. The inmate who was attacked is found in cell #109 unconscious in a pool of blood. The injured inmate is loaded in an ambulance and transported to the Union County General Hospital. Ringleader Clifton Bloomfield is found hiding out in a cell on the Restrictive Housing Unit's upper level. He is handcuffed and escorted out of the trashed cellblock to the medical unit. The prison complex is placed on lockdown and a Department of Corrections investigation is launched.

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