When Old New-Gate Prison – a state-funded historical site – closed along with other state parks in 2009 due to a lack of state funds, the closing was just supposed to be temporary. When state ...

Let’s travel back in time now to the Middle Ages and find out what life was like at the notorious Newgate prison. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul Is It Better to ...

The dank and dark Cooper Mine at Old Newgate Prison becomes a winter refuge for a certain bat species that remains under threat from a deadly disease. Old Newgate partnered with the Connecticut ...

After nine years of structural repairs and improvements, Connecticut’s Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine reopens to the public this Saturday. In 1705, the East Granby site was the first copper ...

Closed for nine years for structural repairs, Connecticut’s Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine, a national historic landmark and state archaeological preserve, will reopen on Saturday.

Nell leaves Roxy and George with their Uncle Jack while she and Rasselas go to Newgate Prison to free Devereux, but discover it is going to be harder than they thought.

In 1813, she was invited to visit Newgate Prison, where she was horrified by the conditions she witnessed. “All I tell thee is a faint picture of reality; the filth, the closeness of the rooms ...

to more discreet premises inside Newgate Prison. “Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators,” he said. “If they do not draw spectators, they don’t answer their purpose. The old ...

More than 200 years ago, Elizabeth Fry felt the same way, after being deeply shocked by her visits to Newgate Prison in London. The Quaker philanthropist spearheaded a campaign that resulted in ...