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| Museum of Colorado Prisons captures the history of corrections in area, state |
| By canoncitydailyrecord.com- DC Spencer |
| Published: 04/18/2016 |
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The Colorado Territorial Penitentiary opened in 1871 in Cañon City as a three-story stone building with no wall. Inmates were warned to return each evening by a certain hour or they would be locked out. So says Museum of Colorado Prisons Director Stacey Cline. Such informational tidbits, photographs and memorabilia are only a small part of what is on display today at the west end of Cañon City's Main Street in the 1930s-era Colorado Women's Prison that houses the museum. Cline said the few early female inmates prior to 1884 were housed in the general population until construction of a separate cell block inside the prison walls. Read More. |
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