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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.
Sometime in 1888 the Apache Kid was caught, put on trial in Globe for various crimes, and sentenced to spend the next seven years in Yuma Territorial Prison. The Kid had already served over a year of prison time at San Carlos and Alcatraz Island , so the prospect of going to the prison at Yuma was intolerable and he conspired with his fellow ...
This adobe residence was built in approximately 1860. It has been the residence of (1) David Neahr, builder of the Yuma Territorial Prison, (2) Louis Iaeger, a Colorado River ferryman, and (3) Gabriel Martinez, namesake of Martinez Lake. Popular Drug Store, aka Golden Wedding Bell Marriage Chapel, 102 Madison Avenue (Yu227). This frame and ...
Resigning his position with the Arizona Rangers in March 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the Yuma Territorial Prison in Yuma by President William Howard Taft. [6] He then immediately began the process of abandoning the old prison complex and building a new one in Florence. Rynning supervised the construction and brought convicts from ...
According to local media, the special prison contains three apartment-like cells with outdoor terraces. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, another former president, is not held there: he has been under house ...
Yuma Territorial Prison cell with steel bunkers. 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. Downing was assigned a number, inmate number 1733, just like any other prisoner.
The former jail supervisor allowed white supremacist inmates to violently attack Black inmates in Oklahoma, feds said.