State snags another big Hollywood film New Mexico Business Weekly
Much of the movie will be filmed at the old New Mexico State Penitentiary just outside of Santa Fe. The prison, notorious for a 1980 riot that claimed 33 lives, was closed in 1999. Several movies have been shot there in the past two years, said Jon Hendry, who heads the New Mexico Tourism Department.
Hendry also said The Longest Yard could keep '100 carpenters, 40 painters and 40 greens people' busy and 'making union wages for a long time.'