The Swede became a headline item in 1973 when he and former cellmate Jan-Erik Olsson held-up the Kreditbanken Bank in ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon ...

In 2019, Mexico's Islas Marías prison – the last island penal colony in the Americas – finally closed. Now a biosphere reserve, the once-feared archipelago is open to tourists on restricted ...

Prior to 1984, the island was used as the site of a maximum security prison, likened to Alcatraz, reachable only by a two-hour boat ride and home to more than 1,000 prisoners throughout its history.

President Trump may want to open up the once-notorious Alcatraz Island prison to again house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but one woman remembers “The Rock” as a wond… ...

Located west of Steilacoom in Puget Sound, Pierce County’s McNeil Island measures about seven square miles; its 27-acre prison opened as a federal penitentiary in 1875, 14 years before ...

Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Washington’s abandoned McNeil Island prison closed in 2011 — could it return to federal control? The News Tribune asked.

Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz. Washington’s abandoned McNeil Island prison closed in 2011 — could it return to federal control? The News Tribune asked.

A history of Alcatraz, its famed prison inmates and an island's uncertain future The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three ...

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago ...

In Indonesia, Prabowo’s prison island plan for corrupt officials raises eyebrows. A recent prison break has exposed the flaws in Indonesia’s overstretched correctional system.