History Hop Tags - Prison

1567-06-16

Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland

1605-01-13

The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

1619-05-18

Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison

1676-11-16

1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass

1739-09-01

35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal

1809-05-24

Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war

1862-08-28

Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC

1864-07-29

American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.

1873-10-08

First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute

1884-04-02

London prison for debtors closed

1890-08-06

At Auburn Prison, New York murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair.

1893-02-09

Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud

1901-07-24

O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

1910-10-22

Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.

1914-01-20

The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment

1914-02-10

In accordance with the understanding reached by General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners are released from the Pietermaritzburg Prison; 40 passive resisters are released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle and 11 in Port Elizabeth

1923-06-06

Gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years in prison

1925-02-08

Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta

1931-10-17

Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

1932-02-02

Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)

1932-03-01

12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province, British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted.

1933-10-12

Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)

1934-01-01

Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison

1936-07-18

Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison

1937-12-16

Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

1939-06-17

Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.

1942-04-17

POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.

1944-05-05

Gandhi freed from prison

1944-05-11

Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison

1945-05-23

Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44

1946-05-04

5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay

1948-03-16

Billie Holiday is released from prison early because of good behaviour

1948-03-27

Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall

1949-02-08

Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison

1950-10-14

Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

1951-01-13

German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1954-11-27

Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

1955-07-13

The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London.

1955-10-04

Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

1956-04-06

Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison

1959-06-23

Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).

1961-06-22

Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo

1961-12-21

Gangster Joe Gallo is sentenced to 7 to 14 years in state prison for extortion

1962-06-11

Brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz Island prison, the only ones to do so

1963-07-20

Riots break out at Mt Eden Prison, Auckland, New Zealand

1963-08-11

Four ANC political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in South Africa

1964-06-12

Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

1967-01-18

Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison

1967-02-03

Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.

1967-03-06

Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison

1967-07-16

Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)

1969-05-09

Following his release from prison Ian Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist holds a 'victory' meeting

1970-06-22

Irish socialist, republican and Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, loses her appeal against a 6-month prison sentence imposed for taking part in riots in Derry

1970-10-21

Bernadette Devlin is released from prison having served four months of her six month sentence for riotous behaviour

1971-09-09

1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison

1971-09-13

11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison

1971-11-24

Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey

1972-01-17

Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland

1972-10-11

Prison uprising at Washington DC jail

1973-10-31

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter

1974-10-31

Dutch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison

1974-12-04

Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison

1975-01-08

Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison

1975-06-09

Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla)

1977-06-10

James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison

1977-06-21

Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison

1977-06-22

Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison

1977-08-15

Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome

1977-09-30

Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines

1979-01-19

John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison

1979-02-01

Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery

1979-02-20

11 loyalists known as the "Shankill Butchers" are sentenced to life in prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast

1979-11-19

Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion

1980-01-18

Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000

1980-06-10

8 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escape from Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast using handguns smuggled into prison

1981-10-03

Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike

1982-09-25

Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)

1987-01-13

Seven top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

1987-12-23

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of Pres Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison

1988-12-06

Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown

1989-01-30

Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident

1989-02-13

Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison

1990-08-08

Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp

1991-02-27

Singer James Brown is released from prison

1991-12-10

Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

1992-04-23

Marion Berry (former mayor of Wash DC) let out of prison

1992-07-22

Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison

1993-04-11

450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday.

1993-11-18

27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador

1994-01-03

100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt

1995-01-01

Fred West, the Gloucestershire builder charged with 12 murders, found dead in his prison cell

1995-02-06

Rapper Tupac Shakur convicted on sexual assault charge and sentenced to up to 4 1/2 years in prison

1995-02-22

Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters

1998-05-27

Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

1998-06-04

Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

1999-06-06

At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.

2001-02-18

FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

2003-02-27

Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison

2004-04-20

In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.

2004-04-30

U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

2004-07-17

Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators

2005-08-18

Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.

2006-05-03

Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.

2007-06-01

Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.

2008-12-05

OJ Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery

2009-04-07

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

2011-08-18

The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment

2012-02-15

Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358

2012-02-19

44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels

2012-04-15

400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack

2012-11-10

27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka

2013-01-25

50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela

2013-05-08

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a four year prison sentence for fraud

2013-07-27

1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya

2013-08-24

30 people are killed in a gang battle involving flame throwers in Palmasola prison, Bolivia

2014-10-21

Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

2014-11-11

The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison

2015-12-16

North Korea sentences Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim to life in prison

2017-01-15

Prison Riot in Brazil Leaves at Least 10 Inmates Dead

2017-02-19

New York bomb plot mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman dies in prison

2017-10-01

OJ Simpson released after serving 9 years in Nevada prison

1780-05-21

Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

1811-11-29

Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer

1873-12-30

Robert E. MacAlarney, The Prison Without Walls

1879-08-21

Richard Kipling, Behind Prison Walls

1882-03-17

Willard Kent, Prison Shadows

1885-12-24

Alexander Leftwich, Prison Train

1886-01-20

Albert Petit, Révolte dans la prison

1886-10-17

Val Stanton, Prison Train

1887-07-07

Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer)

1891-04-19

Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband)

1899-03-02

Josef Mischel, Prison Ship

1908-9-10

Annie Ducaux, Prison sans barreaux

1909-06-02

Jack Reynolds, Prison

1910-07-19

Faith Bacon, Prison Train

1913-01-07

Shirley Ross, Omaha NE, actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm)

1913-07-30

Sven Björling, Prison

1916-07-15

Vernon E. Clark, St. Louis, Missouri: October 24 - Prison Escapee Captured in Armed Robbery Shootout

1918-04-11

William Perrie, British prison governor

1918-04-21

Gösta Petersson, Prison

1919-04-05

Wyn Cahoon, Women in Prison

1920-04-16

Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor

1920-11-14

Sergiu Grossu, Bless You, Prison

1921-01-18

Roma Rice, Prison Without Bars

1922-07-09

Ruth Vann, Women's Prison

1923-02-06

Verena Rice, Prison Without Bars

1923-08-31

Bengt Westfelt, Prison

1924-07-26

John Kilgour, director of prison medical services (Home Office)

1926-12-11

Doris Svedlund, Prison

1929-11-27

Billy Nair, S Afr union/SACP leader (20 yrs in Robbeneiland Prison)

1930-11-12

Camil Silviu, Bless You, Prison

1933-03-23

Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment

1933-06-13

Maha Sabry, Isamail Yassine in Prison

1934-05-08

Roger Kendrick, governor (Dartmoor Prison)

1936-05-13

Alan Rayfield, governor (Long Latin Prison)

1937-01-01

Vasile Luca, Bless You, Prison

1937-05-06

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Clifton, New Jersey, American boxer whose murder convictions were overturned after 19 years in prison

1937-07-06

Bert Matias, Let's Go to Prison

1938-9-25

Nicolae Margineanu, Bless You, Prison

1940-06-18

Bob Duncan, prison warden (Gartree Prison in UK)

1940-11-07

Dorina Lazar, Bless You, Prison

1941-03-30

Brendan O'Friel, CEO (Prison Governors Association)

1941-05-24

Martin Mogg, governor (British Durham Prison)

1942-02-16

Ann Curthoys, The Prison

1943-05-28

Ray Mitchell, governor (Albany Prison, England)

1944-11-21

Marcy Carsey, Let's Go to Prison

1946-10-30

Michael Fisher, Myra Hindley: The Prison Years

1949-08-17

Ralph Langer, Prison Ship

1950-04-12

Tom Werner, Let's Go to Prison

1951-02-03

Eugenia Maci, Bless You, Prison

1951-03-08

Alan Westbrook, Prison for Children

1951-9-04

Wes Cowan, Flint-Lock Rifle/Lafayette China/Prison Plaque

1953-10-23

Alex Gibney, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

1954-03-09

Bobby Sands, Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison where he died (1981)

1956-02-28

Sandy Santistevan, Prison Ship

1957-02-02

Manuel Valdivia, Turner Guilford Knight Prison Center, 20:59 horas

1961-07-14

David Starzyk, Prison Break: The Final Break

1962-05-08

Masaki Terasoma, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

1963-06-29

Abbie C. Solarez, Prison Planet

1966-03-05

Fukashi Azuma, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

1966-11-12

Alberto Rey, Pink Prison

1967-08-07

Christina Lohse, Pink Prison

1967-08-30

Robin Simmons, Prison-A-Go-Go!

1970-10-11

Adam Blank, From Prison to Home

1970-9-17

Lori Jo Hendrix, Prison Heat

1972-06-06

Kathy, Prison

1973-08-09

Tatsurô Abe, Prison Planet 3: The Revenge

1974-12-29

Sean Niehoff, Mysterious Prison

1976-05-09

Thorbjørn Kjærbo, Pink Prison

1976-08-21

Joshua McMeel, Prison Planet 3: The Revenge

1977-04-12

Robert Colin Boyd, Prison Planet 2: The Armageddon

1977-05-27

Makiko Kimura, Prison Planet 2: The Armageddon

1977-08-02

Zak Neathamer, Prison Planet 2: The Armageddon

1977-10-05

Andy Grieve, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

1978-02-18

Jeff Ayala, Prison-A-Go-Go!

1979-05-19

Lauren Graham, Prison-A-Go-Go!

1979-06-27

Barak Epstein, Prison-A-Go-Go!

1980-06-21

Sindy Lange, Werewolf in a Womens Prison

1980-12-22

Leonardo Dell'Anno, Prison Dancer

1982-11-13

Shawna Buchanan, Karosta Prison

1983-03-26

Lindsey Dietzler, Let's Go to Prison

1983-9-15

Anna Ingenthron, Prison Break

1984-9-20

Ally Iseman, Prison Is the New Popular

1985-02-12

Chantal Ferrera, Lesbian Prison

1985-05-21

Brooke Syrie, Bondage Prison

1985-06-26

Brent Barbano, The Stanford Prison Experiment

1985-08-20

Mellie Williams, Lesbian Prison

1985-9-02

Hank Stahlecker, Prison Boat

1986-9-24

Ryan Campbell, The Glass Prison

1987-12-25

Alex Kirschenbaum, Prison Boat

1988-10-05

Alexis Johnson, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

1988-9-21

Andrew Jacobson, Prison Planet 3: The Revenge

1990-02-12

Honey Lovely, Mad Sex Party: Pussy Prison

1990-02-14

Amai Liu, Prison Girls

1992-01-06

Diona Reasonover, Doris & Mary-Anne Are Breaking Out of Prison

1995-04-17

Alyssa Joy Cook, Prison-A-Go-Go!

1996-05-23

Andra Maria Margineanu, Bless You, Prison

1996-07-30

Mackenzie Hannigan, Prison Break-In

1975-09-13

Novelist Danielle Steel (28) weds Danny Zugelder in the prison canteen

1978-01-24

Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

1703-11-19

Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies

1782-04-22

Anne Bonny, Irish pirate, dies in prison (date is approximate)

1794-03-28

Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher, is murdered or commits suicide in prison at 50

1804-04-15

Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)

1865-11-10

Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty

1914-02-22

Valliamma Mudaliar, took part in Indian passive resistance, dies of a fever contracted in prison

1942-04-24

Leonid Kulik, Russian Minerologist (Tunguska meteor site) dies of typhus in a Nazi prison camp at 58

1945-11-15

Robert E. MacAlarney, The Prison Without Walls

1946-10-15

Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison at 53

1947-01-13

Alexander Leftwich, Prison Train

1952-01-14

Otto Eis, Prison sans barreaux

1954-11-17

Josef Mischel, Prison Ship

1956-09-26

Faith Bacon, Prison Train

1956-10-22

Harry Cody, Prison Break

1957-02-25

Bugs Moran, American gangster, dies of lung cancer in prison at 65

1962-04-04

James Hanratty, executed at Bedford Prison, England, for the murder of Michael Gregsten (b. 1936)

1962-05-31

Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56

1964-08-13

Peter Anthony Allen is the last person executed (for murder) in England and United Kingdom at Walton Prison, Liverpool

1965-03-11

Richard Kipling, Behind Prison Walls

1967-08-13

Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87

1971-10-21

Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84

1973-11-25

Albert DeSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death in prison

1974-03-28

Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82

1977-03-13

Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison

1979-01-31

Vernon E. Clark, St. Louis, Missouri: October 24 - Prison Escapee Captured in Armed Robbery Shootout

1981-04-04

Chick Sheridan, Modern Prison Sketch

1981-10-16

Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies

1982-12-07

Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas

1985-09-07

Doris Svedlund, Prison

1986-09-05

Harry Karlsson, Prison

1986-10-05

J. Robert Benton, Prison Break

1987-01-22

R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference

1987-08-17

Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93

1989-12-16

Maha Sabry, Isamail Yassine in Prison

1990-09-30

Jack Reynolds, Prison

1992-07-18

Ruth Vann, Women's Prison

1993-08-12

Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69

1994-11-28

Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], American serial killer, killed in prison at 34

1996-05-18

Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76

1996-12-31

Annie Ducaux, Prison sans barreaux

1997-11-15

William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79

2000-10-27

Alan Westbrook, Prison for Children

2003-01-09

Gösta Petersson, Prison

2005-10-28

Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)

2008-02-10

Bengt Westfelt, Prison

2008-04-20

Verena Rice, Prison Without Bars

2009-07-25

Sergiu Grossu, Bless You, Prison

2012-01-15

Sandy Santistevan, Prison Ship

2014-04-20

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer whose murder convictions were overturned after 19 years in prison, dies of prostate cancer at 76

2015-01-07

Michael Fisher, Myra Hindley: The Prison Years

2016-04-05

Kitty Genovese murderer Winston Moseley dies in prison aged 81

2017-02-20

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman dies at US prison aged 78

2017-11-17

Feared Sicilian mafia boss 'Toto' Riina dies in prison, aged 87

2018-03-24

Prison Break and Chicago Fire star DuShon Monique Brown dies aged 49