When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison's notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago ...

"Hunger" is an uncompromising film, and it’s especially shocking to see Fassbender in the lead role as he physically ...

The men convicted for the murders documented in Truman Capote’s classic crime novel “In Cold Blood” were executed in this ...

The historic Kansas State Penitentiary — once home to dangerous criminals and known for some high-profile executions — will ...

Brian Jeffrey Raymond sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA's ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The history of Australian prison newspapers dates back to 1912 when The Compendium was established.

The City of Indianapolis will take control of the site of Indianas first womens prison which has sat abandoned for years.

The shuttered Kansas prison where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” were executed is now a tourist ...

Hoping to save the former penitentiary from demolition, the Lansing Historical Society recently reached an agreement with the Kansas Department of Corrections to open the former prison for tours ...

paving the way for the historic prison to be opened for tours. Visitors will have plenty to see in the buildings that have ...

paving the way for the historic prison to be opened for tours. Visitors will have plenty to see in the buildings that have mostly been left in the condition they were in when the prison shut down.