Within Adobe Walls: A history of the Yuma Territorial Prison from 1875 to 1909

Within Adobe Walls chronicles the development of the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma, Arizona from 1875 to 1909, and what life was like for the 3000 criminals who spent “hard time” inside those walls. When first constructed, as permanent housing for Arizona’s most dangerous long-term felons, the inmates were confined in a iron cage inside a cave hollowed out of the granite hill. With temperatures exceeding 110 degrees in the summer, it was dreaded by lawbreakers and soon referred to as t...