The concept of prisons as we know them today is relatively modern. In antiquity, jails served less as places of penitence and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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