The monastery of Casamari in Italy was built in the 11th century on the foundations of a temple dedicated to Ceres, the Greek ...

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

Divided into Old Town and New Town by the Water of Leith, the Edinburgh Castle sits on top an extinct volcano. With its darkened stone facades, Edinburgh oozes history, which is why it became a UNESCO ...

Rapper Tory Lanez is reportedly on the road to recovery in a new prison facility after he was allegedly stabbed 14 times on the morning of May 12.

For nearly a quarter-century, Lincoln has been searching for a new downtown central library to replace the now 63-year-old ...

Decades before Christopher Kinahan Sr. fled to Dubai, he dabbled in prison poetry and prose alongside some of Ireland’s most ...

In the state of Ohio, Lucasville remains synonymous with the state's largest-ever prison riot. On Easter Sunday of 1993, more than 400 inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility there took ...

The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.

Nearly 300 silver coins were found completely by accident when digging started for a forest restoration project.

The Tower of London, a millennial fortressBuilt almost 1,000 years ago, the Tower of London has had few structural changes since the 13th century, though it is no longer a prison or a fortress.

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson received a posthumous reprieve from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, making both players eligible for the sport’s Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished.