Collage of a forest tent, three smiling girls, and a police mugshot of a man labeled ICE DEPT. TULSA, OKLA.

In the mid-19th century, at a time when the United States was rapidly expanding its borders and solidifying its national identity, a...

In the Berlin district of Spandau, a red‑brick compound once loomed behind layers of concrete walls, barbed wire, and armed watchtowers. Constructed in 1876 during the German Empire, the prison’s quiet beginnings as a military detention centre would give way, over the following century, to a darker renown.