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A Florence, Arizona Prison

Arizona did not become a state until 1912, so for several decades of it’s existence, it had a territorial prison to handle the work of that a state penitentiary would carry out it a full fledged state. The same town that housed the prisoners in the territorial days, still fulfills the mission today…

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