The Dartmoor Prison Museum, located in the old dairy buildings, focuses on the history of HMP Dartmoor.

** Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.

In the Government District, Athkatla, are the Council of Six building, the Prison, and the estates of the rich nobility. The Forgotten Realms, the high fantasy campaign setting in which Baldur's Gate II is set, is a fictional world, perhaps similar to a medieval Earth, but having its own peoples, geography, and history.

However, the only witness to be heard was Dr. Peter Parkes, medical officer at Horfield Prison, who testified to Straffen's medical history and stated his conclusion that Straffen was unfit to plead.

* Federal Prison Journal — issue devoted to the history of the Bureau

He also played a key role in the Maze ( HM Prison ) prison escape, which was the biggest prison break in British penal history.

He was the most dangerous inmate in the history of Atlanta Prison and he was dubbed by the newspapers across the West Coast as the " Smiling Bandit ", the " Mail Train Bandit ", and the " King of the Escape Artists ".

* Essay on Wilde and the history of Reading Prison

Mount Eden Prison has a colourful history.

Millbank Prison was a prison in Millbank, Pimlico, London, originally constructed as the National Penitentiary, and which for part of its history served as a holding facility for convicted prisoners before they were transported to Australia.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

Eisenhower, who was the oldest president in history at that time ( then 70 ), was succeeded by the youngest elected president, as Kennedy was 43.

In 1815 he succeeded his uncle as second Baron of Halkin according to a special remainder and assumed the additional surname of Duff ( see Duff-Gordon baronets for further history of this branch of the family ).

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

" They add that the history of dogmas consists in the reporting of the various forms in which revealed truth has been clothed, forms that have succeeded one another in accordance with the different teachings and opinions that have arisen over the course of the centuries.

After the war, he went to the university at Strasbourg, then in 1936 succeeded Henri Hauser as professor of economic history at the Sorbonne.

Upon the death of Jahangir in 1627, Prince Khurram succeeded to the Mughal throne as Shah Jahan, King of the World, the latter title alluding to his pride in his Timurid roots and his ambitious the history.

* December 20 – After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history, the Kangxi Emperor dies and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen with the reign name Yongzheng.

" While this may be an example of the self-consistency principle, it is not entirely clear whether the original time-line was one in which Hitler died in the bunker, or whether the traveler succeeded in changing history.

Later history relates that some Etruscans lived in the Tuscus vicus, the “ Etruscan quarter ”, and that there was an Etruscan line of kings ( albeit ones descended from a Greek, Demaratus the Corinthian ) which succeeded kings of Latin and Sabine origin.

When Louis XIV succeeded his father he was only four years old ; he would become the most powerful king in French history.

The SPD quickly gained popularity and succeeded in forming a social-liberal coalition with the FDP following the 1969 federal election, forcing the CDU out of power for the first time in their history.

Abilene, when first mentioned in history, was governed by a certain Ptolemaeus, son of Mennaeus, who was succeeded, about 40 BC, by a son named Lysanias.

He served in the House longer than anyone else in Tennessee history ( though Jimmy Quillen, who eventually succeeded him as the 1st District's congressman, holds the record for the longest unbroken tenure in the House for a Tennessee congressman ), and only Kenneth McKellar served in both houses longer.

Uruk gave its name to the Uruk period, the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the history of Mesopotamia spanning c. 4000 to 3100 BC, succeeded by the Jemdet Nasr period of Sumer proper.

He was succeeded in the other titles by his first cousin once removed, the second Earl of Burlington, who became the seventh Duke ( see the Earl of Burlington for earlier history of this branch of the family ).

On the Duke's death in 1768 he was succeeded in the dukedom of Newcastle-under-Lyne according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Duke ( for further history of this title see the Earl of Lincoln ).

He was succeeded in the Burlington estates and in the barony of Clifford by his eldest surviving daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford ( see the Baron Clifford for later history of this title ).

Lord Burlington was succeeded in the earldom of Cork and the other remaining titles by his third cousin John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery, who became the fifth Earl of Cork as well ( he was descended from the third son of the first Earl of Cork, and had also inherited the titles of Baron Broghill and Baron Boyle of Marston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, thus a seat in the British House of Lords until 1999 ( see the Earl of Orrery for earlier history of this branch of the family ).

He was succeeded by his son who bore the same name and is known to history as Bahram II.

On his death in 1883 this line of the family also failed and he was succeeded by his fourth cousin Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 3rd Baronet, of Stanwell, who became the ninth Earl ( for earlier history of the baronetcy, see below ).

In 1799 he succeeded Daubenton as professor of natural history in the Collège de France.

However, she was never the Viscountess Melbourne because she died before Melbourne succeeded to the peerage ; hence, she is known to history as Lady Caroline Lamb.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in the Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable ; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols ' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader Genghis Khan with Prester John ; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Mongols ' homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

* 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.

Past history includes suspicion of involvement in Abu Selim prison massacre.

* 1994 – The U. S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.

Hockey player Jaromír Jágr, whose grandfather died in prison during the rebellion, wears the number because of the importance of the year in Czechoslovak history.

It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.

In 1931, Fall became the first cabinet member in history to be sent to prison for actions while holding office.

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

The prison and its inmates played a prominent role in recent Irish history, notably in the 1981 hunger strike.

He then proceeded to publish on the history of prison systems.

Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, social anthropology of medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality.

* Joseph Rothe, of Fonthill, Ontario, ordered to pay $ 500, 000 in restitution, received a four-year prison sentence, along with Ewaryst Prokofiew, of Mississauga, Ontario, in the biggest GST fraud in Canadian history.

It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France.

Most of the gang were eventually caught and, in February 1979, received the longest combined prison sentences in United Kingdom legal history.

The prison was also the site of a 1973 riot that lasted for days and is generally regarded as one of the worst in American history.

Jean-Louis Margolin writing in The Black Book of Communism, which describes the history of repressions by Communist states, claims that perhaps 20 million died in the prison system.

In The Protector's War, a post-apocalyptic alternate history novel by S. M. Stirling, Woburn Abbey serves as a prison for an English knight ; the knight is rescued and flees to the Willamette Valley of Oregon in what was the United States of America.

Devil's Island and associated prisons eventually became one of the most infamous prison systems in history.

The morning Derek is due to be released from prison, Danny's history teacher, Murray, reports Danny to the now-principal Dr. Sweeney on account of Danny's history paper on Mein Kampf.

Kilmainham Gaol played an important part in Irish history, as many leaders of Irish rebellions were imprisoned and some executed in the prison by the British and latterly in 1923 by the Irish Free State.

Chassebœuf de Volney was thrown into prison during the Jacobin Club triumph, but escaped the guillotine ; he was some time professor of history at the newly founded École Normale.