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In 1873, if one local land-owner had had his way, Winchester could have become home to a new state prison. In January that ...

Sacco and Vanzetti were in the Death House in the State Prison at Charlestown. They fully understood that they were to die immediately after midnight. Mr. Ehrmann and I, having on their behalf ...

Back in Cambridge, he organized and led a gang of burglars who worked out of an apartment in Harvard Square until he was caught and sentenced to ten years in the Charlestown State Prison.

The South Dakota Department of Corrections (DOC) says it will not respond to questions on why it locked down two of its three ...

After nearly a century in operation, this month marks the end for one of Illinois’ most notorious prisons: Stateville Correctional Center, just outside of Joliet. At the same time, its proximity ...

His Majesty, now in retirement in British Columbia, might yet end his days sticking wads of Blackjack under a cot in Charlestown State Prison. The University could conceivably bring a civil action ...

The Charlestown State Park in partnership with the Friends of the Charlestown State Park have created a hiking challenge.

An extraordinary postcard arrived in November 1878, addressed to Samuel Emery Chamberlain, the warden of the new Concord state prison, which had opened earlier that year next to rail lines in the ...

“Ultimately, the breachway is state property,” said Charlestown Town Administrator Jeffrey Allen. “So, ultimately, it certainly is a responsibility of the state of Rhode Island to fix it.

Officials with Smith State Prison say an inmate died Sept. 13. 36-year-old Orlando Jordan, who was serving life without ...