Yuma Territorial Prison
We went to jail today. The Yuma Territorial Prison is a state park on the site where this jail used to be until it closed in 1909. Like all historical jails it showed the kind of treatment that the prisoners got here, which wasn’t too bad compared to what we saw last year at Port Arthur in Australia.
The Colorado River “flows” just below the jail. Actually it would be more appropriate to say that there is a canal right below the jail. There isn’t much river water left here (and even less farther down, as the river no longer flows into the ocean), and the river isn’t much bigger than the Little Red in Prince Albert.
After lunch we came back to the trailer, after shopping for a few supplies. I bought a soldering iron, some wire and some shrink tubing and properly fixed the wiring where it got pinched in the hitch.