When you think about incarcerated people, do you imagine them as faceless masses, or as individuals with personalities, histories, hopes and dreams? Artist JR, best known for his oversized ...
Not every pub in London has a spying room complete with binoculars so patrons can gaze into the windows of the British Intelligence Service across the street - nor does just any old pub have a ...
Murder, deadly biological weapons, the torture of prisoners never formally charged with crimes and one of history's largest mass suicides are just a few of the violent events that took place on ...
Should architecture be used as a punishment in itself, made as harsh and cruel as possible in a bid to make inmates sorry for what they've done, or should it uplift and rehabilitate them, showing ...
How would you like to be jailed underground on a planet where the surface is too scalding hot to touch, or locked up in an asylum with the most depraved of criminals, where the corrupt guards are ...
Are you sitting comfortably? Good... so was Giuseppe Zangara, 78 years ago today, when authorities at the Florida State Penitentiary flipped the switch on "Old Sparky" and sent the prisoner sic ...
A prison is probably the last place on Earth most of us would want to spend the night, right? Well, for some of these converted prison hotels that still holds true: in Latvia, for example, ...
