July 29, 2024 • 21m
Alcatraz, built to hold the worst of the worst, is the last stop for repeat offenders and troublemakers from other prisons. These ...Read more
July 29, 2024 • 21m
ADX is the place for terrorists, serial killers, and anyone else who will never again see the light of day. Located in Florence, C...Read more
August 5, 2024 • 21m
The Hanoi Hilton is perhaps the most famous American POW prison of the Vietnam War located in the city of Hanoi. In Vietnamese its...Read more
August 5, 2024 • 21m
A maximum-security prison on the banks of the Hudson, just 30 miles north of New York City, it gave rise to the term “being sent u...Read more
August 12, 2024 • 21m
Dannemora, located in the frigid Adirondack mountains, its nickname is "little Siberia." Officially called the Clinton Correctiona...Read more
August 19, 2024 • 21m
San Quentin located in Marin County on the San Francisco Bay is California's oldest prison dating back to the gold rush, and home ...Read more
August 26, 2024 • 21m
Attica, a 90-year-old maximum-security prison in upstate New York, has a legacy of violence and inmate abuse stretching back decad...Read more
September 2, 2024
Leavenworth located 25-miles northwest of Kansas City, was the largest maximum-security federal prison in the United States for over a hundred years.
September 9, 2024
France shipped prisoners to Devil's Island located off French Guiana so they would vanish from the public eye; its most famous pri...Read more
September 16, 2024
Deep in the heart of the Confederacy, Andersonville was the last place a Union soldier wanted to end up during the Civil War; only...Read more
September 23, 2024
Located in the heart of London on the River Thames, the Tower of London's reputation for torture and beheadings fuels nightmares; ...Read more
September 23, 2024
Within the first forty years of operation of the Soviet Gulag system, at least 18 million people were imprisoned and more than one...Read more