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A mural amidst debris and abandoned buildings at the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. The Old Atlanta Prison Farm is an abandoned, city-owned prison complex in southwest DeKalb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. From approximately 1920 to 1990, the farm was worked by prisoners to produce food for the region's prison system.
Constructed 1833–1835, Kingston Penitentiary is the oldest standing prison dating to pre-confederation in Canada. After closing in 2013, the institution began operating tours seasonally from May–October, offering guided tours with online ticketing and Tour Guides as well as retired Correctional Staff on site to provide information to guests.
In the 1910s, inmates included Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", who fatally stabbed a prison guard in March 1916. During World War II , eighty-five Japanese Americans who had resisted the draft to protest their wartime confinement , including civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi , were sentenced to prison terms at McNeil; all were ...
Tatterson said that she visited the prison in 2009 during a tour of East Coast abandoned places. She captured the prison in 20 photos. A description winds the reader through the history of the ...
At least two music videos have been filmed in Eastern State: On July 29, 1985 Tina Turner filmed her "One of the Living" video in the abandoned prison. Philadelphia punk band the Dead Milkmen's breakout hit "Punk Rock Girl" included footage of the band in the prison as well as driving through the surrounding Fairmount neighborhood.
At first the complex was a minimum-security prison, later adding medium-security facilities. It consisted of 100 structures on over 1,000 acres, including dormitories, a 1915 Mission-style chapel with a pipe organ, a dining hall with large windows and panoramic views, newly-built gymnasium and medical building, and a lake.
American Civil War prison camps (52 P) D. Defunct prisons in insular areas of the United States (1 C) I. Internment camps for Japanese Americans (41 P) S.
Bodmin Jail was previously dubbed one of Britain’s most haunted places, but now it’s been remade into a four-star hotel. Like the urban legend that prisoner Selina Wadge, who was convicted of ...