According to historical accounts, out of the 36 Alcatraz inmates who tried to flee before the prison was closed in March 1963 ...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet on March 21, 2006, giving rise to one of the most popular social media ...

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

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Step back in time to the 18th century at Colonial Williamsburg, where the colonial era is meticulously preserved and ...

Campbell Bruce’s 1963 non-fiction book, which details the infamous 1962 escape from the high-security Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Starring Clint Eastwood as the mastermind behind the real-life ...

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from prison a day after a court cancelled his arrest warrant. Footage aired on local TV channels showed Yoon leaving prison on ...

Nusa Kambangan Island - also known as 'Indonesian Alcatraz' - is home to over 1,500 ... on drug charges - seem pretty grim. According to Prison-insider, there's barely any windows, lack of ...

A former Mobile postal worker and her accomplice will spend several years in federal prison for a multimillion dollar check fraud scheme targeting U.S. mail. According to a press release from the ...

The prison complex is home to a number of prisons ... The island, dubbed 'Indonesia's Alcatraz', is known for its harsh conditions, with prisoners given minimal contact with the outside world ...

Abdel Fattah began refusing food at the Wadi al-Natroun prison "on Saturday, March 1 after hearing news that his mother had been hospitalised" in London, where she has been on hunger strike to put ...

After being investigated for the alleged crimes of money laundering and criminal organization, Yenifer Paredes, the sister-in-law of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, was sentenced to 30 months in ...