Museum of Colorado Prisons
201 North 1st Street
Cañon City, CO 81212
719-269-3015
877-269-3015
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With the mission to be a regional resource center that preserves and presents the history and evolution of the Colorado prison system, the Museum of Colorado Prisons includes the hangman's noose used for the last execution by hanging in Colorado, confiscated inmate weapons and contraband, a gas chamber, rare, historic photographs depicting life in prison facilities, displays of disciplinary paraphernalia used from 1871 to the present, a Federal Bureau of Prisons display, inmate arts and crafts and more.
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