Gotta a love a town whose major attraction is a brutal jail. In fact, in this Arizona State Prison (now a National Park) over a period of 33 years, 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, served sentences there for crimes ranging from murder to polygamy. It seems that a lot of prisoners were jailed for committing adultery. In fact, there was even a man in there charged with “seduction, under promise of marriage”!
There’s always an eerie feeling when you visit a place with so much history – I often try to imagine myself in context, and this time, I couldn’t imagine spending my days and nights at such an establishment. You really don’t need to go too far back into history to see what savages humans can be. And that, to me, is the scary part.
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Amazing the jail photos!!!
Great photos! Have you been to Alcatraz? I wonder how it compares? This architecture just seems so visually appealing (…which I do find weird saying when it’s about a jail!).
Wow – very cool. Was the jail first opened in 1901? I saw a date on one of the pictures… if true, that would make it 111 years old – crazy. Could you imagine if the same rules followed today how many people would get jailed for seduction/ adultery?!
Thanks! Ya it was a very interesting place.. And Mirsada, I thought the same thing – lots of “adulterers” out there..
Though, whoever has gotten cheated on probably thinks the other person should be locked up haha!
As horrifying as the stories attached to this place must be, the pictures you took Slava are somewhat peaceful and even pretty. I guess the beautiful sunny day,on which these pictures were taken on, added a completely new energy to the place. Those picture remind me of how much the world had changed in just a little over 100 years. I always think they should re-purpose these places whenever possible to make into something that brings happiness and joy. That would be full circle – completely letting go of our past and making room for kinder, more evolved way of being.
Erika, you bring up an interesting point – there is no better idea than to turn a place of negativity and aggression into something useful and beautiful!
Wow…love these shots!!