The Yuma Territorial Prison
On July 1, 1876, the first seven prisoners were moved into the Yuma Territorial Prison and every day the prison was still under construction for another 33 years. The budget the prison could not pass was $25,000. The prison was based off a contest that was manufactured on making the prison. The prison was located Prison Hill Road in the historic part of Yuma, not far away from Yuma Crossing-Quartermaster Depot. Next to the prison was the Colorado River because of the water along with the desert that was all around. The weather of Yuma also played a really good role in deciding where the location of the prison. It is the hottest together with driest place and it's was just a small town at the time. One of the benefits
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There were 6 males in a cell and the people would always be squished. The prisoners would be put in punitive measures for any simple thing such as bad language and walking around when told not to. One of the brutal punishments that the prison had was the dark cell. The dark cell was known to all over the prison. The dark cell was an iron cage that was about 15 feet high and 15 feet wide. Once they were in that cage they were not tolerated to have contact with anyone whatsoever and no other meal but bread and water. In the dark cell room the prisoners were also stripped down to their underwear and sometimes the prison guards would throw snakes into the cage. A punishment that a prison would extort them if they tried to escape is being changed to the ground outside of the wall, not being able to move or have any contact with other prisoners. There were never any executions at the prison, but there were about 111 people that died there serving time at the prison. Most of the bodies that were at the prison that had died at the prison were due at the back. At the prison, there was once an inmate that killed another inmate and for the maltreatment, he was hung
The prisoners are starved, shaved, beaten, and treated as “filthy dogs,” all while working forcedly throughout the day. Eliezer and Shlomo had to move heavy stones to wagons without having strength left. Family members were separated just because they didn’t fit the age range. Many just died because they could not last anymore, like Wiesel’s father. There was this thing called selection.
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John Henry was one of these prisoners. The state of Virginia had become so much in debt that they had given the railroad over to a railroad tycoon by the name of Collis P. Huntington. Huntington had tried to get the Irish to work on the C&O railroad because they were a part of the cheap labor system. The Irish however did not want to work for Huntington because they did not like the dangerous conditions that his workers faced. Huntington was using nitroglycerin which was very dangerous because it was more powerful than
The Yuma territorial prison west of the Gila River, south of the red river, east of the city of Yuma and north of the desert. It was located in that place because no one laughed that the prisoners were going to risk their lives trying to escape through the desert, swimming by the rivers with strong current or that some citizen saw them and reported to the authorities. In the year of 1876 the prison was opened, with a capacity of up to 350 prisoners, although in it they lived around 3000, including 29 women. According to the employees of that place, the prisoners were not only there to fulfill their punishment, but they also learned things, they had a series of rules that they had to follow to have a good behavior and thus have the opportunity
The yuma territorial prison had a big impact on yuma. There are many prisons but the yuma territorial prison is different, why? Because it was the first prison in arizona. And out of all arizona it was build in yuma, a small town, it help yuma in many ways. The prison helped yuma with it’s population, the economy, society, and it also helped yuma grow.
Other times it is used to host events like the 5k Run. The Yuma Territorial Prison can be used for many things, but it will always be apart of what made Yuma’s
How is the Yuma Territorial prison significant to the city of Yuma? How is the Yuma Territorial Prison significant to the Southwest region of the United States? Well, the Territorial Prison is significant to the city of Yuma and the Southwest region because the prison was the one thing that helped start to develop the houses and population of yuma. Also, the prison had helped influence and build some of the buildings in Yuma. After the prison closed down in 1909 it became a temporary school after a prison and after it was a school it became a museum which brought more people to yuma, like tourist because they wanted to see the prison.
Alcatraz Island Federal Prison I think that Alcatraz had a lot of cool history and isn’t really thought of being very nice but it was actually a well maintained prison until it closed. Alcatraz Island was one of the biggest and most expensive federal prison. They had to take the military prison and put solitary confinement cells, used tempered steel for the bars, made 6 guard towers, and the cells were 5x9 foot cells.
In the early 1800s the punishment of juveniles altered to the notion to rehabilitate juvenile offenders among with separate juveniles from adults in the system, and to keep the juvenile recidivism rate low, therefore the creation of the New York House of Refuge began (ABA Dialogue Program, n.d., p.5). The House of Refuge was the first prison to separate juveniles from adults and “were supposed to provide a home for unruly and troubled children, where they would be reformed, educated, and disciplined (Roberts, 1998, p. 96).” The program did not concentrate on punishment or pain, but on life skills that the juveniles could utilized once released. According to Roberts (1998), “Order, discipline, and moral teachings were emphasized (p.97).” The
B. Kelly, thought that it would help boost the city’s economy. Another reason why the prison was built in Yuma was because the location would have been perfect. Since the Gila River was on the east of where they planned on building and the Colorado was North, with Yuma to the West it discouraged prisoners from escaping. The fact that the prison would be 170 miles away from San Diego, California and 220 miles away from Tucson, Arizona (Zlateuski web) even the thought of prisoners escaping would be highly unlikely. Lastly, Yuma’s weather was miserable there was nothing but dry heat for most of the
Their punishment: standing with their noses to a wall and standing there for hours on end knowing that this would be the last that they do. Finally, at the end of the day, there would be a public shooting and these prisoners would be the victims (Borstein). However, that punishment had a better outcome than being sent to block eleven. Block eleven is described as a torture cell that the Nazis used to confine the prisoners and torture them even more. Inside block eleven the forms of torture that happened included confinement cells, these cells consisted of one square meter each and they had to stay there for a few nights to several weeks.
85% or 2,800, 000 Jews killed in Poland. All were numbed with terror and fear of what will happen next. Just think of what they had to go through, oh wait for you cant cause you will never understand or feel what happened to them and how the Nazis treated the Jews. The Holocaust means Holocaust: “great or wholesale destruction by fire” (“Holocaust”).
The New Mexico Prison Riot As the state's only maximum security prison, the Penitentiary of New Mexico housed the highest security classification of offenders in the state of New Mexico. During the early
The term "Prison Industrial Complex" (PIC) is used to express the rapid expansion of the United States inmate population. The prison industrial complex (PIC) is an expression used to describe the connection between the interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment the resolution to economic, social and political problems. The P.I.C helps to maintain the authority of people who get their power through racial, economic, social and other privileges. Power is collected and maintained through the PIC in many ways, including creating mass media images that reinforce the stereotypes associated with people of color, less fortunate people, homosexual people, immigrants, youth, elderly and other oppressed communities. These stereotypes imply that those who are associated with these groups of society are criminals, corrupt, delinquent, deviant, etc.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. By Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Pp. 368.