The Yuma Territorial Prison had its first prisoners on July 1, 1876. These prisoners had stayed in cells that they had built themselves. The prison was a 25,000$ budget project for the legislature. It’s located about three miles west from the colorado river. There were 111 people who had died in the prison, out of those people who had died while at the prison most of them was because of tuberculosis a bacterial infection that affects your lungs and can have minor side effects but is easily treated. The other reasons for the deaths of some of the prisoners was because of natural causes very died violently, 17% died from other reasons than tuberculosis or normal causes like suicide, homicide, trying to escape and one from being executed by the yuma county. The prison had a total of 3,069 prisoners imprisoned from 21 different countries including Mexico, China, Russia, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Germany, and England, …show more content…
They had electricity, air conditioning, two bathtubs and three showers, a library were the prisoners could go pick from one of over 2,000 books, and had its own band called the Yuma Prison Band. The prison even had its even had its own school soon after it closed called Yuma High School. The original school had burned down in 1910 so they had adopted the prison as its school, they had the classes in the cells of the prison for three years. They had even started a football team called the Yuma Criminals. In 1913 the city had built a new school for the criminals because they needed the prison for a city jail. At first the criminals seemed like a fighting word, but the students and the staff took pride in the name so in 1917 the school board officially claimed them as the Yuma Criminals. For eight years they only had one building called the main, but in 1921 they had finally built a cafeteria and an ag shop, then two years later they added a snider and the