Author: OldPrisons
In Globe, Arizona, a 1910 jail built for a ‘tough town’ is open for tours
Old Prisons Founded as a mining camp around 1875, the small town of Globe, Arizona, is the county...
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Fan club for ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ helps support rehabilitation of Ohio State Reformatory at Mansfield
Old Prisons Hollywood has lots of connections with old prisons and jails, but one of the best...
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New museum at former District of Columbia prison honors legacy of women’s suffrage movement
Old Prisons It’s hard to imagine today, but barely more than 100 years ago a number of women were...
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A multi-purpose building in 1920s Palisade, Nevada was the jail, schoolhouse, courthouse and morgue
Old Prisons Gone-but-not-forgotten is this building in Palisade, Nevada, that served the community...
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