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Independence, Missouri
The 1859 Jail, Marshal's Home and Museum in Independence housed prisoners until 1933 and held Frank James, brother of Jesse James, for…
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz operated as a federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963. Its bloodiest episode was the Battle of Alcatraz, from May 2 to 4, 1946: an…
Andersonville, Georgia
Camp Sumter, the Confederacy's largest and most notorious prisoner-of-war camp, operated here from February 1864 to May 1865. Built for…
Andersonville, Georgia
Andersonville National Cemetery was established on July 26, 1865, to receive the dead of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prison where more…
Hanford, California
Built in 1897 to a design by San Francisco's McDougall Brothers, the turreted Kings County Jail and sheriff's office served until 1964,…
Athol, Idaho
The Brig is the only original building remaining from the Farragut Naval Training Station, which trained hundreds of thousands of recruits…
Mount Holly, New Jersey
The Burlington County Prison in Mount Holly, designed by Robert Mills, held prisoners from 1811 to 1965 and is now a museum and a National…
St. Augustine, Florida
After pirates nearly overran St. Augustine in 1668, Queen Mariana of Spain ordered a proper stone fort built to defend the colony;…
Bisbee, Arizona
This Art Deco courthouse, designed by the Tucson architect Roy Place and built in 1931, became the seat of Cochise County government when…
Columbia City, Indiana
The Haunted Jail, the ghost of a murderer is said to haunt the site of the retired jail. It is now used as a haunted house throughout the…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour guides and visitors at Eastern State Penitentiary describe cackling laughter echoing from empty cellblocks, shifting shadows glimpsed…
DeRidder, Louisiana
The Beauregard Parish Jail in DeRidder, built in 1914 in a castle-like Collegiate Gothic style, held prisoners until the early 1980s and is…
Brooksville, Florida
Atlanta architect William Augustus Edwards designed this Beaux Arts courthouse, built in 1913. Local account holds that a prisoner once…
Petros, Tennessee
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary near Petros opened in 1896 and held some of Tennessee's most notorious inmates until it closed in 2009,…
Bardstown, Kentucky
The Jailer's Inn is a bed and breakfast in the former Nelson County Jail in Bardstown. The jail, begun in 1797, held prisoners until 1987,…
Newark, Ohio
The Licking County Historic Jail in downtown Newark is a Gothic-style brownstone jail built in 1889 with a sheriff's residence in front,…
Jefferson City, Missouri
The Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City opened in 1836 and held inmates for 168 years, becoming known as the bloodiest 47 acres…
Mansfield, Ohio
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, built between 1886 and 1910 in a Romanesque style and in use until 1990, is best known as a main…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Charleston Jail on Magazine Street was built in 1802, took its first inmates in 1803 and was a district jail for 137 years until…
Charleston, South Carolina
The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon at the foot of Broad Street was built by 1771 as a customs house and exchange and was used as a prison…
Globe, Arizona
The 1910 Gila County Jail in Globe once connected to the neighboring courthouse by a catwalk nicknamed the Bridge of Sighs. Its best-known…
Boise, Idaho
The Old Idaho Penitentiary operated from 1872 to 1973, housing more than 13,000 prisoners over its history and seeing escapes and scandals…
Taylors Falls, Minnesota
The Old Jail Bed and Breakfast in Taylors Falls occupies buildings put up between 1851 and 1884 that served as a jail, a bootleggers'…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1891 at Henry Flagler's expense — he wanted the county's old jail out of sight of his luxury Ponce de Leon Hotel — the Old Jail…