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x Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island Reservation Point at the very southwest tip of Teminal Island. Al Capone Jan 6, 1939 Nov 16, 1939
Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island (FCI Terminal Island) is a low-security prison for men located on Reservation Point on Terminal Island in Los Angeles. The other Federal prison in the Los Angeles area is the Metropolitan Detention...
Timothy Leary 1974  
G. Gordon Liddy    
Charles Manson 1956 1959
x Alcatraz Island Alcatraz Island Al Capone   Jan 6, 1939
Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Often referred to as The Rock, the small island early-on served as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison,...
Robert Franklin Stroud Dec 19, 1942 Nov 21, 1963
Morton Sobell 1951 1969
John Giles    
Floyd Hamilton    
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x Sing Sing Warden T. M. Osborne in older facility Charles Becker    
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in the Village of Ossining, Town of Ossining, New York, United States. It is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River. Ossining's...
Louis Capone    
Lucky Luciano    
Frank Abbandando    
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg    
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x Five Points Correctional Facility        
Five Points Correctional Facility is a maximum security men's prison located in Romulus, NY and operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services. FPCF is the current (as of 9/2008) home of serial killer Lemuel Smith.
x Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility        
Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility is a minimum security prison in New York in the USA. The prison is located by the Village of Brocton in Chautauqua County, New York. The facility provides special treatment for non-violent offenders....
x Willard Drug Treatment Center        
Willard Drug Treatment Center is a specialized state prison in Seneca County, New York, USA. The prison focuses on treatment of drug-addicted convicts. Willard Drug Treatment Center is located in Willard, a community in the Town of Romulus, and is...
x Folsom State Prison Front gate Charles Manson    
Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison located in the city of Folsom, California, 20 miles (32 km) from the state capital of Sacramento, California. Opened in 1880, Folsom is the second-oldest prison in the state of California after San...
Ralph 'Sonny' Barger    
Timothy Leary    
x Twin Towers Correctional Facility USGS Aerial Photo - the prison is in the lower right quadrant      
The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. The facility is located at...
x Century Regional Detention Facility   Paris Hilton Jun 5, 2007 Jun 7, 2007  
x Hanoi Hilton HanoiHilton John McCain Oct 26, 1967 Mar 14, 1973
The Hoa Lo Prison (Vietnamese: Hỏa Lò), later known to American prisoners of war as the "Hanoi Hilton", was a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners and later by North Vietnam for prisoners of war during the Vietnam...
x Tower of London The White Tower Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr    
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is an historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located...
Thomas More Apr 17, 1535 Jul 6, 1535
Edward V of England    
Margaret of Anjou    
Johan Anders Jägerhorn   1801
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x Newgate Prison Old Newgate William Penn    
Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London. It was originally located at the site of a gate in the Roman London Wall. The gate/prison was rebuilt in the 12th century, and...
Mary Wade    
Titus Oates    
Lord George Gordon    
Daniel Defoe 1703 1703
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x Bastille The Bastille Man in the Iron Mask   Nov 19, 1703
The Bastille was a fortress-prison in Paris, known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoine—Number 232, Rue Saint-Antoine—best known today because of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, which along with the Tennis Court Oath is considered the...
x Landsberg Prison Justizvollzugsanstalt Landsberg am Lech Adolf Hitler Apr 1, 1924 Dec 1924
Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. The prison was used by Allied power during the...
x Stadelheim Prison Stadelheim Adolf Hitler Jun 24, 1922 Jul 27, 1922
Stadelheim Prison, in Munich's Giesing district, is one of the largest prisons in Germany. Founded in 1894 it was the site of many executions, particularly by fallbeil (guillotine) during the Nazi period.
Ernst Röhm   Jul 2, 1934
x Federal Medical Center, Carswell FMC Carswell Marion Jones Mar 7, 2008  
The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, is a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility that provides specialized medical and mental health services to female offenders. FMC Carswell is located in the northeast corner of Naval Air...
Lynette Fromme   Aug 14, 2009 8am
x Presidio Modelo Prison Presidio Modelo, December 2005 Fidel Castro   1955
The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" of Panopticon design, built on the former Isla de Pinos (now the Isla de la Juventud) in Cuba. The prison was built under the dictator Gerardo Machado in the period 1926–1931, and held 6000 prisoners. Most of...
x Portlaoise Prison   Angelo Fusco    
Portlaoise Prison is a maximum security prison located in Portlaoise, Co. Laois, Ireland. It should not be confused with the Midlands Prison, which is a newer, medium security prison situated directly beside it. The prison was built in the 1830s,...
Paul Magee    
Michael McKevitt    
x Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery   Charles Colson Jun 21, 1974 Jan 31, 1975  
John N. Mitchell    
x ADX Florence The ADX Florence facility from the outside Yu Kikumura   Apr 18, 2007
The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) is a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, USA. It is unofficially known as ADX Florence, Florence ADMAX, Supermax, or The Alcatraz of the Rockies. It is operated by the federal...
José Padilla    
Theodore Kaczynski    
Ramzi Yousef    
John Walker Lindh    
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x United States Penitentiary, Marion USP-Marion Pete Rose Aug 8, 1990 Jan 7, 1991
The United States Penitentiary is a former supermax prison, located in Marion, Illinois. It was built in 1963 to replace the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, which closed the same year. According to Carl Sifakis, author of The Encyclopedia of...
John Gotti 1940 2002
Tom Manning    
Jonathan Pollard    
David Lane    
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x Alderson Federal Prison Camp Scene from Martha Behind Bars, shot in Humber College Lakeshore's "H Building Cafeteria" Martha Stewart 2004 2005
Alderson Federal Prison Camp, also known as Federal Prison Camp, Alderson or FPC Alderson, is a federal prison in the United States for minimum-security female inmates. The prison is a prison camp with a population of around 1,050 and is located on...
Iva Toguri D'Aquino 1949 Jan 28, 1956
Billie Holiday 1947 1948
Lynette Fromme   Dec 23, 1987
x California State Prison, Corcoran Corcoran.jpg Charles Manson    
California State Prison, Corcoran (COR) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Corcoran, in Kings County, California. Also known as Corcoran State Prison, CSP-C, CSP-COR, CSP-Corcoran, and Corcoran I, it should not be confused with the...
Dana Ewell    
Joe "Pegleg" Morgan    
Juan Vellejo Corona    
Mikhail Markhasev    
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x Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women   Marybeth Tinning    
Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women is a prison in Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York, USA. It is the largest women's prison in New York State and has hosted many infamous prisoners. It is the only women's maximum security prison...
Remy Ma    
Sante Kimes    
Pamela Smart    
Carolyn Warmus    
x Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Framingham        
Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Framingham (MCI-Framingham} is the Massachusetts Department of Correction's institution for female offenders. It is located in Framingham, Massachusetts, a large town located midway between Worcester and...
x Nebraska Correctional Center for Women Nebraska Correctional Center for Women Caril Ann Fugate   1976
The Nebraska Correctional Center for Women (NCCW) is a state correctional facility for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Located just west of York, Nebraska, it is the only secure state facility to house adult women. NCCW, began...
x Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women   Assata Shakur    
Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (formerly, the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women) is a prison facility for women of the state of New Jersey's Department of Corrections, located near Clinton, New Jersey in Union Township. Its...
x Coffee Creek Correctional Facility Coffee Creek CF      
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is a women's prison and prisoner intake center in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections, the 1,684 bed facility opened in 2001 at a 108-acre (0.44 km) campus. The...
x Tamms Correctional Center        
The Tamms Correctional Center is a prison located in Alexander County, Illinois north of Tamms, Illinois. The prison has two sections, a 200 bed minimum security facility opened in 1995, and a 500 bed maximum security facility known as CMAX opened...
x Florida State Prison        
Florida State Prison (FSP), also known as Starke Prison (because of its proximity to Starke, Florida), formerly known as the Union Correctional Institution – East Unit, or the Raiford State Penitentiary is a correctional facility located in Starke,...
x Attica Correctional Facility Attica, New York (Correctional Facility) Mark David Chapman    
The Attica Correctional Facility is a penitentiary in Attica, New York. It held many of the most dangerous criminals of the time when it was constructed in the 1930s. A tear gas system is installed in the mess hall and industry areas and has been...
David Gilbert    
Richard Bilello    
David Berkowitz    
Willie Sutton    
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x Rikers Island Rikers Island Sid Vicious    
Rikers Island is New York City's jail facility, as well as the name of the 413.17-acre (1.672 km) island on which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport. The island itself is...
Plaxico Burress    
Mark David Chapman    
x Utah State Prison Nephi 001 Gary Gilmore    
Utah State Prison, or USP, is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It is located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The prison was built to...
Ted Bundy    
Thomas Arthur Green    
x El Segundo Jail   Zsa Zsa Gábor 1989 1989  
x Abu Ghraib prison Map of Iraq highlighting Abu Ghraib      
The Baghdad Central Prison, formerly known as Abu Ghraib prison (Arabic: سجن أبو غريب‎ Sijn Abu Ghuraib; also Abu Ghurayb, meaning 'father of the raven' or 'Place of Ravens') is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km (20 mi) west of Baghdad. In 2001 the...
x Ofer Prison        
Ofer Prison (Hebrew: כלא עופר‎, Kele Ofer), formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385 (מתקן כליאה 385), is an Israeli incarceration facility (מתקן כליאה mitkan kli'a, abbr. Matak) located in the West Bank, between Ramallah/Beituniya...
x İmralı Imrali location Abdullah Öcalan    
İmralı is a small Turkish island located in the south of the Sea of Marmara, west of Armutlu-Bozburun peninsula within Bursa Province. It serves currently as a maximum-security prison island for its only inmate, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the...
x McNiel Island   Robert Franklin Stroud 1909 Sep 5, 1912  
x United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth Leavenworth prison c1910 Robert Franklin Stroud Sep 5, 1912 Dec 19, 1942
The United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth was the largest maximum security federal prison in the United States from 1903 until 2005. It is now a medium security prison. It is located in Leavenworth, Kansas. It is an all-male, medium-security...
Michael Vick Dec 10, 2007 May 20, 2009
Thomas James Holden Jul 7, 1932 Nov 28, 1947
Thomas James Holden   1930
Pretty Boy Floyd    
x Sugamo Prison        
Sugamo Prison (Sugamo Kōchi-sho,Kyūjitai:巢鴨拘置所,Shinjitai:巣鴨拘置所) was located in the district of Ikebukuro, which is now part of the Toshima ward of Tokyo, Japan Sugamo Prison was originally built in the 1920's for political prisoners, using the...
x Devil's Island Devil's Island      
Devil's Island (French: Île du Diable) is the smallest and northernmost island of the three Îles du Salut located about 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) off the coast of French Guiana. It has an area of 14 ha (34.6 acres). It was a small part of the...
x San Cristóbal Island Galapagos2007--56--08-22-07      
San Cristóbal (Chatham) is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, and one of the oldest geologically. Its Spanish (and official) name "San Cristóbal" comes from the Patron Saint of seafarers, "St. Christopher." Its older English name...
x Tarrafal camp        
Tarrafal (also known as Campo da Morte Lenta, the "Camp of the Slow Death") was a prison camp in Cape Verde, then a Portuguese colony, set up by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936), where...
x Belconnen Remand Centre        
Belconnen Remand Centre or BRC is an Australian remand custody facility located in Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory, Australia first opened in 1976. The centre at times holds a small number of illegal immigrants. Sentenced prisoners in the...
x Periodic Detention Centre        
The Symonston Periodic Detention Centre is a minimum security Australian prison located in Symonston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It was formerly the Quamby Children's Remand Centre. The Quamby Youth Detention Centre originally opened...
x Serkadji prison        
Serkadji prison is a high-security prison in Algiers, Algeria; in 1995, about two-thirds of the 1,500 prisoners detained there have been accused or convicted of terrorism. A prison mutiny took place between 21 and 23 February 1995 at Serkadji Prison...
x Drumheller Institution        
The Drumheller Institution is a medium-security prison operated in Drumheller, Alberta by the Correctional Service of Canada. It was opened in 1967, and also includes a 72-bed minimum-security facility. As of 6 April, 2004, the maximum security...
x Qincheng Prison   Bo Yibo    
Qincheng Prison (秦城监狱) is a maximum-security prison located in the Changping District northwest of Beijing in the People's Republic of China. The prison was built in 1958 with aid from the Soviet Union and it is the only prison belonging to the...
Israel Epstein    
Choekyi Gyaltsen 1964 1977
Phuntsok Wangyal    
Peng Zhen 1929 1935
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x Stanley Prison Aerial view of Stanley Prison      
Stanley Prison (赤柱監獄 c. January 1937, previously known as Hong Kong Prison) is one of the five maximum security prisons in Hong Kong, China and is currently the oldest institution still in service (the oldest prison built in Hong Kong was Victoria...
x Victoria Prison The entrance to Hong Kong's Victoria Prison      
Victoria Prison (Chinese: 域多利監獄), or Victoria Gaol was Hong Kong's first prison. A testimony to the evolution of Hong Kong's correctional services, it had been the centre of the local prison system until it ceased operation in December 2005. As part...
x Château d'If The Château d'If and neighboring offshore islands seen from Marseille Abbé Faria    
The Château d'If is a fortress (later a prison) located on the island of If, the smallest island in the Frioul Archipelago situated in the Mediterranean Sea about a mile offshore in the Bay of Marseille in southeastern France. It is famous for being...
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau    
Michel Mathieu Lecointe-Puyraveau    
x Bagne of Toulon Toulon- Bagnard      
The bagne of Toulon was the notorious prison in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of Jean Valjean, the hero of Les Miserables, the novel by Victor Hugo. The Bagne was opened in 1748 and closed in 1873. The bagne was created by...
x Clairvaux Prison        
Clairvaux Prison is a high-security prison in France, on the site of the former Clairvaux Abbey. In this prison in 1971, convicts Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems took Nicole Comte, a nurse, and Guy Girardot, a prison guard, hostage, and Buffet...
x Fleury-Mérogis Prison          
x Fresnes Prison        
Fresnes Prison (Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. It comprises a large men's jail (maison d'arrêt) of about 1200 cells, a smaller one for...
x La Santé Prison La-Sante-Prison-MCB      
La Santé Prison (French: Maison d'arrêt de la Santé or Paris - La Santé) is a prison located in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris, France. It is one of the most famous prisons in France, with both VIP and high-security districts. Prison de La (rue de...
x Sultanahmet Jail Four Seasons Sultanahmet March 2008      
Sultanahmet Jail (Turkish: Sultanahmet Cezaevi), a former prison in Istanbul, Turkey, is now the luxury Four Seasons Hotel at Sultanahmet. It is located in Sultanahmet neighborhood of Eminönü district on the historical peninsula. Built in 1918/1919,...
x Lubyanka KGB House Main Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn    
The Lubyanka (Cyrillic: Лубянка) is the popular name for the headquarters of the KGB and affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square in Moscow. It is a large building with a facade of yellow brick, designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by...
x Lefortovo prison        
Lefortovo prison is a prison in Moscow, Russia, since 2005 in the command of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. It was constructed in 1881. It was named after the Lefortovo District of Moscow where it is located, which in turn took its name from...
x Bangkwang        
Bang Kwang Central Prison (Thai: บางขวาง) is a men's prison in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand, located at the Chao Phraya River about 7 miles north of Bangkok. The prison houses many foreign prisoners. It is a harsh prison which handles death row and...
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