By modern standards, there were lesser crimes that landed one woman in the cell. Her name was Altagracia de Otero. She was convicted of selling whiskey to Indians. One pint each, two separate offenses. Her crime was punishable by 60 days in prison.
[Image: inside of the Yuma Territorial Prison Women's Rock Cell]
Altagracia was the oldest woman to ever serve time at the Arizona Territorial Prison.
[Image: view looking out from inside the Women's Rock Cell at the Yuma Territorial Prison]
Sources:
Chronicling America. The Arizona Sentinel. October 23, 1886.
Prescottcorral.org., John Gosper, Arizona’s Would-be Governor
by Jay W. Eby. http://prescottcorral.org/TT11/11pages21-24.pdf
Photographs by Diana DeLugan
#Yuma Territorial Prison, #Otero, #Arizona History
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