The Yima Territorial Prison

The crime sprees lasted for almost three years before they were stopped. After Clyde got out of prison, his first crime was robbing a store. Clyde went with a gang and Bonnie had tagged along. While they robbed, Bonnie stayed in the car the entire time. The police ended up arresting Bonnie when they found her, but ended up releasing her due to no evidence that she was apart of the crime.

The prison is a great big deal to the city of yuma. it benefits to the local economy and population and giving its site other uses the city can throw at it. It help create a city in the hottest and once isolated places in arizona. Without the territorial prison there would not being a great increase in population, the city would have had little economic value and wouldnt called yuma high, criminals.

On October 20, 1943 Irena or Jolanta was arrested. She went to a notorious piawick prison where she was questioned repeatedly and she was tortured very badly. While they questioned Irena they actually fractured her legs and feet. Later on Irena was given the death sentence. They had arranged for her to be shot and killed.

This caused her to tell rumors that she was raped by a coast guard. At the young age, she had to have a blood transfusion. The best she got was a prisoner and she

Gladys Alcala January 14, 2015 Period 1 The Yuma Territorial Prison Was it known as a country club, or a hell hole ?. Well it depended on what side of the wall you were standing on. The Yuma Territorial Prison was known for what it was called not for what was really taking place. During the late 1800’s the prison was built in Yuma, Az.

Only 26 of the prisoners escaped and from those 26 prisoners, 24 were already outside of the facility. Even after the prison closed, the community continued to use it. The Yuma Territorial Prison was fascinating because of the how it was opened and closed, the different punishments they were given for not following the rules

It was soon discovered that Patty Hearst was taken by a group of radicals who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army or SLA. Hearst was taken to what would become her prison. Patty Hearst was imprisoned by her abductors, blindfolded and kept in a closet for fifty seven days. Hearst was constantly put through torture, whether it was mental cruelty or rape.

Ruth). She plead guilty to the charge of kidnapping with extortion (Silver Ruth). Ruth Eisemann-Schier spent a few years in prison (Silver Ruth). She was released on parole and would later get deported out of the United States (Silver Ruth). Since Ruth, there has been a total of ten women added to the FBI’s Most Wanted List since its adoption (Ten).

The Attica Prison riot of 1971 was caused by a variety of problems, but is unanimously attributed to the death of the African-American activist and author George Jackson. While incarcerated at San Quinton, Jackson’s work reached readers on an international level and inspired prisoners throughout the country. Inmates at the Attica state prison faced harsh conditions and without any other escape, used George Jackson’s, and other activist’s writing as a way to tolerate their environment. Temperatures reached well over one hundred degrees during the summer, prisoners were allowed less than one shower per week, and basic necessities such as toilet paper and medical treatment were withheld from inmates. These harsh conditions created a platform for

Various types of crimes have led many women to death row such as Karla Faye Tucker, since the execution of North Carolina’s own Velma Barfield, who was executed in 1984. Also, Tucker becomes the second woman put to death in the United States since capital punishment was re-introduced in 1976. Fourteen years later, she was condemned to death in Texas, since Chipita Rodriguez was hanged for killing a horse trader in 1863, and Tucker became the first female to be executed in Texas since that time. The Dallas Morning News asserts that “Tucker, 38, was convicted of using a 3-foot-long pickax to hack Jerry Dean to death during a burglary at his Houston apartment in 1983. Also killed was an overnight guest, Deborah Thornton” (Hoppe).

The prison hasn’t just been used to provide a building, but its been used for it’s material and has been slowly torn apart. Piece by piece through time, parts of the prison have been torn down. In 1916, there was a flood in Yuma and what the townspeople used to rebuild were parts from the prison (Murphy 1). In order for the Southern Pacific Railroad to be built the western walls and the woman's cells had to be destroyed in 1923 (The Yuma Territorial Prison). More destruction was made when the hospital in the prison and the Mes Hall were burned down in 1924 (The Yuma Territorial Prison).

They also concluded that the environment of the prison played a vital role in the way the guards treated the prisoners. It is believed that this experiment changed the way some U.S. prisons are

The way they lived within the prison and sadly the way some died while incarcerated there at the prison. East of Gila River, north of the Colorado River, town of Yuma to the west, located on a top of a hill, was the prison known as The Yuma Territorial

An estimated 26 percent of juveniles sentenced to prison for life were convicted of a felony murder, that is, for participating in a robbery or burglary during which a co-participant committed murder, in some cases without the knowledge of the teen. Fifty-nine percent of youth sentenced to Life without parole sentences are serving time for a first-time offense. In 26 states, the sentence of life without parole is mandatory for anyone, even a juvenile, who is found guilty of committing first degree murder. Lolita Barthel she was seventeen at the time when she robs Richard Menendez on August 18th, 1995. She was arrested on September 14th, 1995 just seven days after her birthday, she was a few weeks from turning 18 when she shot and killed the Temple Terrace floral supply salesman in August 1995, during a robbery as the victim begged for his life.

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