IN 1910 THE BOOMING copper mining town of Globe, Arizona, built a new territorial jail to house its miscreants.
![jail](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1-globe-arizona-jail-door-1024x577.jpg)
It was built next to the courthouse. Convicts went directly from the courtroom to the prison on the “bridge of sighs.”
![catwalk](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/3-globe-arizona-catwalk-1024x577.jpg)
The building’s walls were solid concrete, and the cell blocks came from the famous Yuma prison, which had closed the year before.
![cell block](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/4-globe-arizona-tank-door-1024x585.jpg)
The cell blocks were a prison within a prison – steel walls and a steel ceiling.
![cell block](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/5-globe-arizona-jail-wall-1024x577.jpg)
Each cell block held twenty-eight men. Some served sentences as long as ten years here.
![cell block](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/6-globe-arizona-jail-tank-1024x576.jpg)
Four men shared a space not much bigger than six by six feet.
![jail cell](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/7-globe-arizona-jail-cell-1024x576.jpg)
The jail walls still bear graffiti that prisoners scratched into the steel, perhaps with their belt buckles.
![graffiti](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/8-globe-arizona-jail-graffiti-1024x576.jpg)
The jail was built on the site where Globe’s gallows used to stand. They say it’s haunted, and I believe it.
![jail bed](http://patriciasanders.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9-globe-arizona-jail-bed-1024x576.jpg)
For current information on visiting Globe’s 1910 Territorial Jail, call the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce at (928) 425-4495 during regular business hours.
Originally posted at magnificentpassage.com.