Tag: October 1893
Tainted Transactions: Corruption in the Arizona State Penitentiary
On October 2, 1893, a quarterly meeting of the Board of Prison Commissioners in Yuma, Arizona, took a dark turn when the board convened to discuss the latest transactions of the Arizona State Penitentiary. The meeting, attended by Chairman S.C. Bagg and member A.G. Williams, revealed a tangled web of questionable expenditures and unexplained financial…
