Federal officials announced the closure of the nearly century-old La Tuna prison, saying employees will be laid off while the ...

One of the nation's few remaining colonial-era debtors' prisons will reopen to the public on Independence Day following a ...

Prisons in the Middle Ages were often designed less for rehabilitation and more for punishment and control. Some facilities ...

The History Channel’s new series takes you inside some of the world’s most notorious prisons. You’ll get a taste of what it’s like to be held there, and you’ll hear stories of famous inmates – ...

LANSING, Kan. (KCTV) — The limestone facade of the old Lansing Correctional Facility looms imposingly. From Kansas City, the state prison is the first of three historic prisons, including the United ...

Dark Tourism embraces sites associated with death, tragedy and the macabre. Though it may be a new description, it’s certainly not a new phenomenon. Travelers into this morbid side of travel have a ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Nations do not forget by accident. Forgetting is organised — through silence, omission, selective commemoration, and the quiet erosion of inconvenient truths. The Ikoyi Prison Narratives positions ...