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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: January 17, 2006
Caption: Woman's Jail
Additional Description: **Under the Courthouse Steps, Women in Jail** Women prisoners in the 1850's - 1905 were either held in the men's jail or in a hotel with an armed guard, which posed a dangerous problem. In 1905 the Board of Supervisors authorized the construction of one or more cells for women and juvenile prisoners. On October 19, 1905 construction began on the iron works for a new woman's jail, located under the steps at the north end of the courthouse. This jail was used until a new jail was constructed in 1941 in back of the courthouse, now a parking lot.
Submitted: October 10, 2008, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p38757
File Size: 0.974 Megabytes

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