In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

Elizabeth Berry was hanged at Walton Prison in 1887 after murdering her 11-year-old daughter, Edith. Working as a nurse at ...

In fields are "lumps and bumps", Peterborough Archaeology says, as well as a memorial to 1,770 prisoners who died there. The ...

Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its ...

Also underappreciated in the award circuit is the dramatic, based on real events tour de force of "Sing Sing" with Colman ...

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...

Or they think of its 18th- and 19th-century prison, the harshest in the British Empire. For decades, Norfolk Island was regarded as a place suitable only for the “newly wed or the nearly dead”.

Here’s a look at Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s life. Personal Birth date: April 16, 1927 Death date: December 31, 2022 Birth place: Marktl am Inn, Germany Birth name: Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Father: ...

The first thing that you have to accept when you write a book about early blues music, Dr. Gregg Kimball says, is that you’ll never solve the mystery of it all. “We just dont ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — At Niagara Falls, the iconic honeymoon and tourist destination on the U.S.-Canadian border, ...