Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were hoping to see memorabilia from Johnny Cash’s famous concert at the old Folsom Prison, or perhaps a hemp rope from ...

HANOI, Vietnam — The “Hanoi Hilton” is the sarcastic nickname bestowed by US prisoners of war on the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, formerly North Vietnam. Most Americans know the prison as the place where ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Nascimento Blair lived inside Sing Sing Prison, in Ossining, ...

Inside the San Quentin Prison Museum, preserved under glass, is the rope used to hang Rattlesnake James in 1942. James — who earned his sobriquet after putting his wife's leg in a box with two ...

MOUNT HOLLY – Burlington County’s expansive and diverse history was celebrated Wednesday during a ceremony marking the completion of a major restoration project at the Burlington County Historic ...

A collection of leg restraints that were used at Folsom prison are displayed at the Folsom Prison Museum. Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 166 on Aug. 17, which allows the Department of General ...

The original cell block of the famous Sing Sing Correctional Facility, built in 1828, will play a new role in the justice system. The imposing, historic structure which once housed 1,200 incarcerated ...

Meris Westberg of Jablonski Building Conservation works to preserve a calendar scratched by an inmate into a cell wall at the historic Burlington County Prison. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Camden and Cherry ...

OSSINING – Planners for the Sing Sing prison museum are targeting a 2025 opening — the 200th anniversary of the state prison perched on the Hudson River. But, as with New York City’s National 9/11 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Huntsville's Texas Prison Museum is unlike any museum in the world. It is home to the good and bad history of the incarceration system. The first thing you will see when you walk ...

MOUNT HOLLY – October is the season of spooky fun, and the Burlington County Parks System is inviting residents interested in the paranormal and tales of spirits that go bump in the night to visit the ...

Join Next City Contributor Emily Nonko for our webinar with Brent Glass and Sean Pica, executive director and board member of Sing Sing Prison Museum, as they discuss the process of opening a prison ...