Ball and Chain

Today we set out with my in- laws for Mexico. When we arrived there was a sign saying -NO CAMERAS- A big disappointment being there was a lot of photo ops.
I wasn't willing to break the rules and become a Mexican prisoner.
After we left we went to the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park.

On July 1, 1876, the first seven inmates entered the Territorial Prison at Yuma and were locked into the new cells they had built themselves. We were able to walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chamber of Arizona Territory’s first prison. Now a museum, the building houses photographs and colorful exhibits of those who once “involuntarily” stayed there and the prison life they had to endure. A total of 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, lived within the walls during the prison’s 33 years of operation.