Articles tagged as Prisons

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Rare Birmingham Jail Logbook Pages Signed by MLK Resurface After Decades

100 Years of Women at the Ballot Box

Radical Protests Propelled the Suffrage Movement. Here's How a New Museum Captures That History

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Are There Native Descendants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? And More Questions From Our Readers

Alcatraz's Captivating Hold on History

Prison Book Bans Are ‘Arbitrary and Irrational,’ Report Finds

Five of the Most Fascinating Prison Museums in America

Long-Forgotten Monument to Prison Reformer Will Be Reinstalled in New York Courthouse

London's National Gallery Lends a $4.5 Million Masterpiece to a Women’s Prison

Here's What Al Capone’s Philadelphia Prison Cell Really Looked Like

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Radar Scans Reveal Traces of 19th-Century Fort Beneath Alcatraz