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The Wyoming State Penitentiary is an American historic and current prison in Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming, which has operated from 1901. It moved within Rawlins to a new location in 1981. In 2018, it is a Wyoming Department of Corrections state maximum-security prison for men. [1]
On August 23, 1974, 10-year-old Jayleen Dawn Banker became separated from her friends while watching the Carbon County rodeo at the Rawlins, Wyoming fairgrounds, and she instantly vanished. [8] On April 24, 1975, eight months after going missing, Jayleen's partially dressed body was discovered in a field.
In 1890 Wyoming became a state and the facility was transferred to the new state, which already had planned a new facility in Rawlins. Butch Cassidy was incarcerated here in 1894–1896. Prisoners were transferred to Rawlins in 1901; the prison was closed in 1903 and given to the University of Wyoming. [2]
Sep. 20—A Jermyn man who drained his late aunt's bank account while letting her life insurance policy lapse, leading to an $18,000 loss to her and her estate, avoided jail time at his sentencing ...
Location of Carbon County in Wyoming. ... Rawlins: 16: First State Bank of Baggs: First State Bank of Baggs: September 13, 1984 : 10 S. Miles St.
Wyoming entered the Union in 1890. As a territory, inmates were held at the Wyoming Territorial Prison at Laramie. Work began for a state prison at Rawlins in 1888, but the facility did not open until 1901. The building had 104 cells and housed both male and female inmates. In 1909, female inmates were transported to Colorado to serve their ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Henry Ruhl (February 26, 1909 – April 27, 1945) was a spree killer and the only person executed in Wyoming by the U.S. government. This was also the second-to-last pre-Furman execution in the state and third-to-last as of 2022.