The same crystalline waters swooshing the pebbled coast of San Lucas Island were once murked by the crimson red of blood. From 1873 to 1991, the island served as Costa Rica's principal penitentiary, ...

In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

Approximately 18 miles from Dubai's shiny centre lies a notorious prison that has been described as '[expletive] on earth.' The complex, where violence and sexual assault are commonplace and inmates ...

Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” are given color-coded uniforms and wrist-bands and then segregated based on their ...

Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “ Alligator Alcatraz ” are given color-coded uniforms and wrist-bands, then segregated based on their criminal ...