I wrote this post on my phone while traveling but for whatever reason it didn't publish
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During its 33 years in operation, from 1876 to 1909, Yuma Territorial Prison housed over 3,000 inmates. Today, it is a state park museum. It was a convenient & enjoyable place for me to split up a six-hour drive. The temperature exceeded 100 degrees during my visit, giving a small sense of the misery created in the crude cells, which housed up to six people at a time.
The prison was built on a hill overlooking the Colorado River, which today snakes meekly through a fraction of its historical channel. Having crossed it hundreds of miles upstream, two days ago, it was very interesting to cross it again in a much humbler setting.
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During its 33 years in operation, from 1876 to 1909, Yuma Territorial Prison housed over 3,000 inmates. Today, it is a state park museum. It was a convenient & enjoyable place for me to split up a six-hour drive. The temperature exceeded 100 degrees during my visit, giving a small sense of the misery created in the crude cells, which housed up to six people at a time.
I am sorry, Jeremy, I know you are hoping to muster some sympathy for those prisoners, but 100 degrees sounds pretty inviting to me right now!!!!
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