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The Yuma Territorial Prison is a former prison located in Yuma, Arizona, United States. Opened in 1875, it is one of the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on the National Register of Historic Places in the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. The site is now operated as a (historical museum ) by Arizona State Parks as Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park..〔http://azstateparks.com/Parks/YUTE/index.html . accessed 9/9/2010〕〔(Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, AZ - DesertUSA )〕 ==History== ;Prison The prison accepted its first inmate on July 1, 1876.〔(Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park )〕 For the next 33 years 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, served sentences there for crimes ranging from murder to polygamy.〔(Wildernet.com - Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, Arizona State Parks )〕 The prison was under continuous construction with labor provided by the prisoners.〔(Yuma Territorial Prison - Arizona Ghost Town )〕 In 1909, the last prisoner left the Territorial Prison for the newly constructed Arizona State Prison Complex located in Florence, Arizona.〔http://www.azcorrections.gov/adc/history/Jill_Historyindex.aspx〕 ;High School Yuma Union High School occupied the buildings from 1910 to 1914.〔(Yuma Union - Yuma HS: History )〕 When the school's football team played against Phoenix and unexpectedly won, the Phoenix team called the Yuma team "criminals".〔http://www.bigblendmagazine.com/Yuma_AZ/Save-Territorial-Prison.htm〕 Yuma High adopted the nickname with pride, sometimes shortened to the "Crims". The school's symbol is the face of a hardened criminal, and the student merchandise shop is called the Cell Block.〔(Yuma Territorial Prison | Atlas Obscura )〕 ;Notable inmates * Burt Alvord, Cochise County lawman and train robber * William Jordan Flake, Mormon pioneer imprisoned for violating the Edmunds Act * Pearl Hart, stagecoach robber * Franklin Leslie, gunfighter and killer of Billy Claiborne * Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican revolutionary, founder of the ''Partido Liberal Mexicano'' * Pete Spence, outlaw involved in the Earp-Clanton feud 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yuma Territorial Prison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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