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In 1909, female inmates were transported to Colorado to serve their sentences. In 1950 an additional wing was added that featured running water and solitary confinement cells. This jail was in use until 1980. when the present state penitentiary was built. [2] In 1912, a riot resulted in the escape of twenty-seven inmates and the death of one ...
Wyoming State Penitentiary is also the location of Wyoming's death row for men and execution chamber, which is located in the prison's parole board meeting room. No death sentences have been carried out in Wyoming since the 1992 execution of convicted murderer Mark Hopkinson, and, in 2018, there were no inmates on death row.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Wyoming. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 90 law enforcement agencies employing 1,691 sworn police officers, about 317 for each 100,000 residents.
It operated as a federal penitentiary from 1872 to 1890, and as a state prison from 1890 to 1901. It was then transferred to the University of Wyoming and was used as an agricultural experiment station until 1989. In 1991, the facility was opened to the public, and in 2004, it was designated as Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site.
Rock Springs is a city in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 23,526 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth most populous city in the state of Wyoming, and the most populous city in Sweetwater County. Rock Springs is the principal city of the Rock Springs micropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 37,975 ...
Sweetwater County was created on December 17, 1867, as a county within the Dakota Territory. [5] The county was formed of territory partitioned from Laramie County.The county was originally named Carter County for Judge W.A. Carter of Fort Bridger [6] In 1869, the newly established legislature of the Wyoming Territory renamed the county for the Sweetwater River.
Rock Springs Police Department Ed Cantrell (December 21, 1927 – June 11, 2004) was the public safety director of Rock Springs, Wyoming , a town tied to widespread corruption, who killed one of his own officers in 1978 but was acquitted after trial .
State of Wyoming v. Ed Cantrell (officially the State of Wyoming v. Edward Lee Cantrell) was a state trial of Wyoming police officer Ed Cantrell for the killing of Michael Angel Rosa, an undercover narcotics agent in Rock Springs, Wyoming. [1] Rosa had previously been working towards uncovering the immense corruption in the city. [2]