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

The prison tours are not handicapped accessible and ... which spans 418,000 square feet and took 21 months to build. The new facility was constructed behind the original penitentiary.

The new housing unit boosts prison capacity by 180 and is divided into two areas-- a conventional cell block where inmates ...

Vic Amesquita, owner of Blood Prison at OSR, has been involved in the haunt business to know one important thing.

The island, some 9 square miles big, is being touted as a potential new ... tour visit and the island is mostly home to the Mediterranean's largest population of monk seals. The eerie red brick ...

This juvenile detention facility near Ione operated for more than a century before closing in 2011. And when Stephens was there, he lived at the grounds’ original complex in Ione, Preston Castle, a 47 ...

The exciting seasonal tours grant guests the rare opportunity to roam the prison’s north segregation building, cafeteria and east cell house. Tickets cost $30 for adults, $10 for children ages 3-12 ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in ...

Plans to build 20,000 extra prison spaces to cope with overcrowding have been plunged into doubt following the collapse of a ...

Instead of demolishing it, the Department of Corrections has transferred control of the building to the Lansing Historical Society and Museum, paving the way for the historic prison to be opened for ...