Ten years ago this month, two dangerous convicts made a daring escape from the state prison in Dannemora, N.Y.

An Argyle man was arrested Saturday after trespassing into a former prison. According to New York State Police, 19-year-old ...

We focused on jail and prison breaks in the ... climbed up plumbing pipes and cut a hole in a roof. Seven, including James Earl Ray, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in 1977.

The Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is a step into the history of a local prison. The pictures tell the story and as the tour guide remarked, “the stories haunt me every day.” Tour hours ...

Here's a list of the must-see Tennessee attractions and experiences. With more than 522,000 acres of forest, mountains, ...

Tickets are now on sale for the 2024 Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Annual ... the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee. The Prison grounds also offer tours of the jail and the ...

He was captured less than 58 hours later, only eight and a half miles from the prison. The rugged terrain proved the greatest guard. Brushy is also known as the only unionized prison in Tennessee. It ...

During his time at the historic Brushy Mountain State Prison, Ray was stabbed 22 times by his fellow inmates. Some say the amount of violence, death and despair experienced at places like the ...

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was built in 1896 and served as one of Tennessee's high-security prisons. Notable parts of the prison's history include supplying inmates for the Coal Creek ...

The mines had already shut down when the state said it was inhumane to house people at Brushy Mountain. It seemed like Petros’ death knell. "Since the prison closed in ’09 there wasn’t ...