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Arizona State Prison Complex – Yuma is one of 13 prison facilities operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC). ASPC–Yuma is located in San Luis, Yuma County, Arizona, 187 miles southwest from the state capital of Phoenix, Arizona. It lies about 12 miles south of downtown Yuma and only about three miles north of the Mexican border.
The Yuma Territorial Prison is a former prison located in Yuma, Arizona, United States, that opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909. It is one of the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on the National Register of Historic Places in the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area .
San Luis is a city in Yuma County, Arizona, United States.The population was 35,257 at the 2020 census. [3] It is part of the Yuma Metropolitan Statistical Area.San Luis, located in the southwest corner of the state directly adjacent to Mexico's Federal Highway 2 at San Luis Rio Colorado, was the second fastest-growing city or town in Arizona from 1990 to 2000.
In a class-action lawsuit, Arizona prisoners argue the medical services they receive are so poor, they constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Over 33 years in operation, Yuma prison housed more than 3,000 of the West’s most notorious desperadoes. While no executions took place, 111 inmates died here, and 104 still sleep in cold graves ...
The Yuma Territorial Prison was a prison built by prisoners in 1875. The prison opened while Arizona was still a U.S. territory. Conditions in the prison were harsh. Some prisoners had to sleep in steel bunkbeds. The prison also has a "Dark Room" in which some prisoners were sent for solitary confinement as a formof punishment.
The state is closing a major portion of the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, officials announced Tuesday. As part of a string of reductions statewide, the lower-security West Facility ...
Jose Maria Redondo (March 9, 1830 – June 18, 1878) was a Mexican-American entrepreneur, member of the Arizona Territorial Legislature, and mayor of Yuma, Arizona. Jose Maria Redondo is known as the father of the Yuma Territorial Prison. He also changed the name of Arizona City to Yuma and became wealthy from mining and irrigation in Arizona.