The Prison Where 111 People Died Before Lunch: Haunting of Carandiru Penitentiary, São Paulo, Brazil
The prison was designed in 1920 to hold prisoners under the modern principles of Brazilian...
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Prisons & Jails
The Slave Cells No One Wants to Sleep Near: Haunting of Stone Town’s Slave Market Prison, Zanzibar
The stairwell takes you down faster than you expected. One moment you are in the cathedral — high...
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The Prison That Housed Pirates, Slaves, and Serial Killers: Haunting of the Old Charleston City Jail
The building at 21 Magazine Street in Charleston opened as a jail in 1802 and held its first...
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Soviet Cells That Never Forgot: The Brutal Haunting of Latvia’s Karosta Naval Prison
The district of Karosta sits at the northern edge of Liepāja on Latvia’s Baltic coast —...
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The Gallows Still Creak: Boise’s Old Idaho Penitentiary and Its Executed Dead
The Old Idaho Penitentiary opened in 1872 and operated for one hundred and one years before...
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