This week, a large crane vessel which is the second-largest in the world of its type left the Ocean State this week, a ...

A man has been jailed after admitting stealing shoes worth nearly £23,000 from a lorry near Gillingham. Michael Tremarco, of ...

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 ...

An island previously used as a maximum security prison site off Colombia has been converted to a national park. Street View Image from July 2014 © 2025 Google From a ...

But when you get on the island, ruins of a prison sit reclaimed by the natural environment. Prior to 1984, the island was used as the site of a maximum security prison, likened to Alcatraz ...

President Donald 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 wonderful ...

Could he reopen Washington’s abandoned island prison? In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said he was directing the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI, and Department of Homeland ...