© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. After surviving the Confederates’ notorious Andersonville Prison, Thomas O’Dea spent more than five ...

Here's what to know. What happened at Andersonville in the Civil War? Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to ...

Here's what to know. Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to start bringing prisoners in," Sernaker said.

My great-great-great grandfather Sgt. Christian Saalman was a Union soldier who died of scurvy and thirst at Andersonville, a Confederate prison at Camp Sumter, Georgia. My great-uncle was Maj. Otis ...

As the sun rose on May 7, 1896, gawkers crowded outside the high stone walls of Moyamensing Prison in anticipation ... the man who built a “House of Horrors” in Chicago where he tortured ...

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Trump’s plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the country’s 36-year-old prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for ...

Two prisoners currently serving sentences in Rome’s Rebibbia prison obtained special permission to participate in Pope Leo XIV’s general audience this past Wednesday. “We received an ...

A movie armorer convicted in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie “Rust” was released from a New Mexico prison on Friday after completing an ...

In the state of Ohio, Lucasville remains synonymous with the state's largest-ever prison riot. On Easter Sunday of 1993, more than 400 inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility there took ...

A former police chief who was convicted of rape and murder escaped from the prison where he was serving a 30-year sentence on Sunday, correction officials said. Grant Hardin had been at North ...

The armorer on Rust was released from a New Mexico prison Friday after serving 15 months on charges in connection to the on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Prison records ...