The castle-like Eastern State Penitentiary is one of Philadelphia's most important historic sites. Having opened in 1829, this Quaker-inspired prison sought to reform prisoners using isolation and ...

Slick Willie” Sutton climbed over the castle-like walls of the old Holmesburg prison, marking his first successful escape ...

Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...

A former Guatemalan congressman, Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar, was sentenced to 18 years in U.S. prison for drug trafficking.

They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to ...

Here's How The penitentiary has been a gleam in the eye ... region will be welcome to use the land as a gathering place. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Nation, and United Keetoowah ...

The Maryland-based philanthropy was founded by Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe ... like this is what he’s got to do,” he said. Penitentiary Glen visitors learn about Ohio’s ...

Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of Eastern State Penitentiary and how it was different than other prisons at the time.