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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.
The 1901 building is now a museum called the Wyoming Frontier Prison. [4] Visitors can go on guided tours through the old prison. There are exhibits about the old and current prisons and the Wyoming Peace Officers' Museum. In the summer of 1911, the Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars baseball team played, made up of 12 inmates. [5]
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Wyoming entered the Union in 1890. As a territory, inmates were held at the Wyoming Territorial Prison at Laramie. Work began for a state prison at Rawlins in 1888, but the facility did not open until 1901. The building had 104 cells and housed both male and female inmates. In 1909, female inmates were transported to Colorado to serve their ...
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1920 to 2014. Timeline of total number of inmates in U.S. prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities. See data chart below. Date: 28 July 2009 - date of original file here on the Commons. Source: References: Derivative of File:US incarceration timeline.gif - see its description for detailed data sourcing.
From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]