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 – ...
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 ...
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Every age treats its penal system as natural, inevitable, and regrettable. When men were hanged in the public square, intellectuals explained that the practice was as helpful to the hanged as it was ...
Louisiana State University professor John Bardes is the author of "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930." Louisiana's modern network of prisons and ...
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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 ...
This month, the South Australian government extended a contract with a private firm to manage a men’s prison in Adelaide for another five years, despite a damning report about its operations. The ...
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