Hotel Katajanokka was a former county prison where prisoners would await trial. It is said to have hosted Risto Ryti, Finland's fifth president. Today, the Best Western hotel still houses its ...

The rental boasts a "mobster theme" and each bedroom pays homage to notorious gangster Al Capone or one of his associates, with a special bedroom named after Alcatraz prison, where Capone was ...

Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six years earlier, and the island had been designated “surplus government property.” ...

There is no prison more prolific than Alcatraz, so it should come as no surprise that some of its past inmates have been equally notorious. Alcatraz Penitentiary was the country's premiere maximum ...