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 …show more content…
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