Hellhole or country club? Yuma Territorial Prison was both during its heyday
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Hollywood actors Ernie Hudson (from left), Timothy Murphy, and Abraham Benrubi stand ready to enter the cell block at the Yuma Territorial Prison, Wednesday, as a scene from an upcoming independent film titled To Kill a Memory is shot. The film crew, which arrived and started setting up for production on Saturday, will be in Yuma working on the film for a couple more days, shooting more scenes in the prison and at the Quartermaster Depot.
Photo by Craig Fry/Yuma Sun
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Hellhole or country club? Yuma Territorial Prison was both during its heyday.
Was the Yuma Territorial Prison a gruesome “hellhole,” as depicted in many Hollywood films? Or was it a progressive and humane prison well ahead of its time? “The irony — it was really both,” said Charles Flynn, executive director of the Yuma Crossing Nat. Read Hellhole or country club? Yuma Territorial Prison was both during its heyday...
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