Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Every authoritarian system depends on erasure. Not only of opposition, but of evidence -- the small, lived details that expose how power actually operates. Prisons are central to this process. They ...

In a small city in Ohio, you'll find an old (and possibly haunted) prison that has been featured in multiple movies, including a major '90s blockbuster.