Yuma Territorial Prison

A prison that was built by its own inmates was the Yuma Territorial Prison. I will be writing about the history of the Yuma Territorial Prison, I will be describing in detail what the prison looked like and what the prisoners did, the prison was built in Yuma, Arizona because Yuma is really hot and dry and there is nothing surrounding it, my limitations to further research are that i 've never seen the prison in person and i don 't know what the prisoners did on a daily bases except for what picture show. The prison was first opened on july 1, 1876 after it was authorized by Legislature in 1875. The prison was a very modern prison for its time it gave prisoners comforts that other prisoners did not have. There was a few escapes and a number…

Why is the Yuma Territorial Prison so important? Many people don't know the prison or the historical events that took place at the prison which is now a museum. The prison helped with multiple things such as helping the great depression, it also helped put away many convicts. The prison was also known to be a state of the ark prison because of its rules and how the prison was cleaned. Also, what most people don't know about the prison is when it went out of business after 33 years, it was turned…

The developers of the Yuma project had to overcome several challenges before the project was built. Natural hazards and other difficulties made it hard to achieve the goal of building the Yuma project. The natural catastrophes that occurred at that time made detractors of the project criticise it even further. “Floods constituted a major hazard for the Yuma project.” They damaged the project several times, while it was built, being “fed by rapidly melting snow” in spring and early summer and…

The Yuma Territorial Prison has many particular traits that people who are interested in Yuma’s history should be informed about. The reason for this is because it has been around for many years, so there is a large amount of history involving it. Many events happened during the time that the prison was open, from 1875 to 1909, there were many changes made within the walls of the prison. The changes made were not just the appearance but also the rules and regulations. Throughout the years the…

Yuma & It’s Irrigation Intro Question One Describe in detail how irrigation changed Yuma/Southern Arizona? Irrigation in Yuma has evolved quite a lot, but before irrigation was evolving it was Yuma being evolved by irrigation. Before the help of irrigation, Yuma would often be flooded due to over rising waters that came from The Colorado. With the start of The Yuma Project, irrigation would be able to come into play. The Yuma Project would result with the construction of The Laguna Dam and…

The Biggest Project in Yuma. Irrigation is the process by which a water supply is brought to the land or crops to aid its growth, and to do so channels are usually used. The yuma project was designed to irrigate Yuma County Arizona And part of California and thus to exploit to the maximum the agricultural activities of the place using as main source of water the Colorado River. The project began in the year of 1903 and with the a series of geographic, environmental and logistical challenges…

about 433 people in August 2001; many of them were of Afghan origin. These persons had been trying to reach Australia in a wooden fishing boat but the boat started sinking about 140 kilometers off the coast of Christmas Island. Some of the people aboard the ship required urgent medical attention so the Tampa decided to proceed to the nearest port, which was Christmas Island and is a part of Australian territory. Tampa paused at the border of Australia’s territorial sea and requested permission…

2. TERRITORIAL WATERS Article 2(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)48 provides that, “[t]he sovereignty of a coastal State ex-tends, beyond its land territorial and internal waters and, in the case of an archipelagic State, its archipelagic waters, to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea”. This maritime zone extends up to 12 nautical miles (Article 3, UNCLOS). The only major exception to this sovereign power of the state is the right of…

Communications 111 Kendra Hietpas Informative Speech General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To tell my audience how Dorothea Lynde Dix’s prison reform impacted the world. Central Idea: Dorothea viewed this issue as a major problem with our society and took matters into her own hands to change it. INTRODUCTION Attention Getting Material I want everybody to close their eyes. Dark, cold, chains, starvation. Open your eyes. What you just imagined were the daily issues that mentally ill…

executing a convicted murderer, the state incurs a variety of costs, whether it is for life in prison or death. Costs associated with capital punishment begin with the costs of the police investigation of the crime and end with the costs of burial (Kasten, 1996). Because capital punishment incorporates in the death penalty, a much lengthier court session results. One California study found that capital trials tend to be three and a half times longer than non-capital murder trials. The…