What was life in prison like? I’m sure it is something you would never like to find out first hand. The yuma territorial prison was no joke, it housed over 3000 prisoners over 33 years. The yuma territorial prison made the community grow by giving people work by that more people started to move to yuma. Also as when it help like a high school more students move to have a education.Prison Rules were pretty easy in prison Gambling, Weapons, and Fighting were not allowed in prison. But any prisoners who broke these rules were punished by wearing the ball and chain. But the biggest punished was getting sent to the Dark Cell it was a room of 15 feet by 15 feet with an iron cage on top. Every prisoner must shower once a week. Must be in bed at the …show more content…
He worked for Wyatt Earp at the Oriental Bar in Tombstone Arizona. He killed Billy Claiborne of the Clanton Gang and killed his girlfriend in a drunken rage. Pearl Hart was known as “bandit queen” she rodded the Globe to Florence stagecoach with Joe Boot. She was sentenced to 5 years in the yuma territorial prison.She was feminine wiles with both prisoners and guards alike, pardoned after 2 years.The Yuma Territorial prison was built in the year of 1876 while the Alcatraz Island was built in the year of 1934. The yuma territorial prison had 3,069 and the Alcatraz island prison had the triple amount of prisoners. The Alcatraz island prison only have the most dangerous criminals and the yuma territorial prison would have random prison.The yuma territorial prison had a kid of 15 years old in prison.The yuma territorial prison was a pretty small prison in yuma.It’s next to the colorado river. The Alcatraz prison was a very big prison in a island next to San Francisco. The yuma territorial prison was used as a high school and the Alcatraz prison was not used as a high school it was just used to hold criminals. Has you could see the yuma territorial prison and the alcatraz island prison had some big difference.The yuma territorial prison is important to the city of yuma because it’s helped in many way. The prison helped as a high school for 4 years, also as a public library these two things were very helpful to yuma. During world war 2 the main guard tower was used by the civil defense as an observation tower and later became a favorite filing location for western movies. Famous actors like John Wayne and Gene Autry made movies at the prison.In the early 1940s the abandoned prison was converted into a museum through the dedicated efforts of the townspeople of yuma. Later on in 1960 it was donated to Arizona State Parks and has been in yuma since then.On July 1, 1867 the yuma territorial