Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s ... where it imprisoned Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. It continued to serve as a military prison until 1933, when the Justice Department ...

The film is a direct response to the War on Terror, and in that regard is ... a man who’s urgently trying to bail his cousin out of prison for reasons that soon become clear.

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw ...

After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines with little opposition ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

A Quad Cities delegation of community leaders met with lawmakers in Washington last week to discuss their concerns about the Arsenal.

Google Earth A former lieutenant at a federal prison in Butner was sentenced to two years of probation Friday for violating an inmate’s civil rights. Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 ...

Vehicles were torched, shots were fired, and prison staff left deeply shaken. A wave of coordinated overnight assaults has rattled France, as multiple prisons across the country were targeted in ...

We are investigating the Department of Social and Health Services’ program to detain and rehabilitate people with a history ...

The city council is asking the court to declare an executive order by the mayor’s office allowing ICE into Rikers Island "illegal ... allowing ICE into the city prison in exchange for having ...

U.S. Army Pvt. Harland J. Hennessey of Boonville was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II.

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of James Busch, who escaped from a Vancouver Island prison in 2019 with another inmate, then killed a ...