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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 .
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 most produced photograph of Buckskin Frank Leslie is the one taken at the Yuma Territorial Prison in November 1893, at the request of a San Francisco Chronicle reporter, for an interview. During the 1880s, there was also a photograph taken in a studio setting by a photographer, that depicts a well-dressed Frank Leslie.
Prison Irish National Monument: Wilson County Jailhouse Museum: Floresville: Texas: United States Jail Wyoming Frontier Prison (Rawlins, Wyoming) Rawlins: Wyoming: United States Prison Wyoming Territorial Prison (Laramie, Wyoming) Laramie: Wyoming: United States Prison www.wyomingterritorialprison.com // Yuma Territorial Prison: Yuma: Arizona ...
It was built in 1910. The cell blocks were transported from the Yuma Territorial Prison. The building was in continuous use until 1981. St. John's Episcopal Church – This church is located at 185 E. Oak Street. It was built in 1901 It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1977, Ref. #77000234.
A correctional officer was concerned that a man who was housed naked inside a frigid and filthy cell would die without help — and suspected jail nurses were avoiding caring for him, according to ...
William Jordan Flake Cabin built in 1858 and now located on Stinson and Hunt Sts. in Snowflake, Az. William Jordan Flake (July 3, 1839 – August 10, 1932) [1] [2] [3] was a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who helped settle parts of Arizona, and was imprisoned at the Yuma Territorial Prison for polygamy.
Isa said he would appoint a commission to pay a surprise visit to the prison cell. ... The pictures in the government submission showed a messy bedroom with a study table, a chair, a single bed, a ...