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 ...

Old Newgate hosted ‘Bat Day,’ on Sept. 7, a day to educate the public on bats and their place in the ecosystem.The dank and dark Cooper Mine at Old Newgate Prison becomes a winter refuge ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, July 10, 2018, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that Connecticut’s Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine, a national historic landmark and state archaeological preserve, will re-open to ...

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 ...

Old New-Gate Prison in East Granby hosts a Jack-O-Lantern experience where you can tour the grounds and learn about the prison’s history. Here are some more facts about the event: ...

Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison, 1818. | Hulton Archive/GettyImages. Fry first became interested in prison reform after hearing an American Quaker named William Savery speak about the poor ...

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.

Adam Gopnik reviews “Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery,” by Andrew Ross, Tommaso Bardelli, and Aiyuba Thomas, and “Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to ...