South Dakota lawmakers have agreed to replace one of the nation's oldest prisons, a lockup that predates the state itself. Legislators narrowly passed a bill Tuesday night in a special session to ...

The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has been off limits will open to the public later this month, but not as part of ...

The inmates are still gone but baseball is coming back to the Old Joliet Prison. The Joliet Slammers will play on the historic grounds against the Gateway Grizzlies of Sauget, Illinois, in an ...

From 1910 to 2001, the Liberty Crest Apartments were known as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison in Lorton, Virginia that housed inmates from Washington, D.C. It is more widely known as the site where ...

The facility is among only four U.S. territorial prisons – which predated the area’s statehood – open to the public as museums.