Sugar House Prison , formerly Utah Prison , is a prison in the Salt House City Sugar House neighborhood of Utah, USA. The 180-hectare prison (73Ã, ha) houses more than 400 inmates. It was closed in 1951 due to disruptive housing construction, and all inmates were transferred to the new Utah State Penitentiary in Draper. The site is now occupied by Sugar House Park and Highland High School.
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History
Territorial prison
In January 1852, the Utah Territorial Territory approved a warning to ask Congress for $ 70,000 for a territorial prison. Congress approved the allocation of $ 20,000 in March 1853 and a plan was made. The following October, Brigham Young's territorial governor selected a 10-hectare (government-owned) government site, later known as the "Great Field Survey", about six miles from the center of Salt Lake City. Sixteen "comfortable cells were dug into the ground, with iron bars on them" consisting of an original prison at a cost of $ 32,000. The facility known as the Utah Territorial Penitentiary opened in 1855. In 1867, the Utah Regional Legislative Office determined that the prison was inadequate and had once considered transferring it to an island in the Great Salt Lake. From 1871 to 1896, the prison was operated federally by the US Marshals. The capacity of inmates expanded in 1875 to accommodate 300 people with the construction of new cell houses and prison walls.
Country prison
In 1896, the buildings and adjacent lands were granted to the newly formed Utah State and designated Utah State Penitentiary, sometimes referred to as the "state pen". Beginning in 1900, the execution by the state was conducted in prison. Prior to that, the death penalty was given in countries where the crime had been committed. Tickets were distributed in 1903 to enter the public to see the execution by firing squads.
With the continued growth of Salt Lake City, the locals finally wanted the prison population moved away from the Sugar House neighborhood. In 1937, the plan was approved for a new prison, 22 miles south of the city in Draper. In 1921, work began on the 1019-acre site (408 ha), then called "Point of the Mountain", to replace the aging prison. However, the construction of the new facility was delayed due to shortages originating from World War II. On March 12, 1951, 575 prisoners in the old prison were transferred by bus to the recently completed Utah State Penitentiary. After nine dynamite rods had little effect on the heavy wall of the closed prison, the disassembly of many parts had to be done with stones.
City/County Park
After the appointment of the old prison, proposals for land reuse include amusement parks, campgrounds, golf courses, and shopping centers. The previous site eventually became Sugar House Park, which is jointly owned by Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County, while 30 acres (12 hectares) are set aside for the Highland High School campus in the future.
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Leading Prisoner
- George Q. Cannon, the early Mormon leader who was given a six-month sentence in September 1898 [this date can not be true; the historical dates of his photographs in prison dated 1886; many of the men with him in prison had long died in 1898 due to "unlawful cohabitation" under the Edmunds Act.
- John Deering, the convicted murderer who was executed by a firing squad in 1948 when connected with an electrocardiogram.
- Joe Hill, convicted of murdering the owner of John A. Morrison's shop with indirect evidence; was executed in 1915 in prison despite intervention by President Woodrow Wilson.
See also
- Death penalty in Utah
- Utah state jail list
- Utah Correction Department
References
External links
- Sugar House Park (official site)
- Sugar House in the early 1900s (photo)
- State Prison: History Agency in Utah State Archives and Archive Services
- Utah Utah Prison, Sugar House 1855-1951 at UtahRails.net
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