The Château d'If fortress off the coast of Marseilles, France has been immortalized as an island prison in this adventure novel.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Castle that was used as a prison from 1100 until 1952 and that has a prominent place in its country's history. It is even said to be haunted by the ghosts of Anne Boleyn and Jane Grey.
Tower of London
The Tihar Jail Complex in this capital city houses several high profile prisoners of its country.
New Delhi, India
In 2004, 60 Minutes reported on a story from The New Yorker that recounted torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers at this prison which was demolished in 2014.
Abu Ghraib
Evin prison in this country is known for its wing where intellectuals were kept both before and after the 1979 revolution that changed the country in a significant way.
Iran
This main organizer of the Holocaust was hanged on 31 May, 1962, at a prison in Ramla in what remains the only execution thus far in Israel.
Adolf Eichmann
A jail in Gitarama housed thousands of prisoners in unspeakable conditions following this horrific 1995 calamity.
Rwandan genocide
Located 40 miles from Munich, this Bavarian prison was where Hitler wrote Mein Kampf and where most of the Nazis war criminals were held following WWII.
Landsberg
The Bridge of Sighs got its name from Lord Byron apparently because it was where prisoners got the last view of this city before their imprisonment.
Venice
Her Majesty's Prison Maze that housed Irish militants through the days of the troubles was where this man lost his life to a hunger strike on 5th May, 1981.
Bobby Sands
Gary Francis Powers, the U2 pilot shot down in 1960 was imprisoned in this largest prison of Russia that was originally constructed by Catherine the Great.
Vladimir Central Prison
The Bagne of Toulon was the notorious prison in France made famous in literature as the place of imprisonment of this hero of Les Misérables.
Jean Valjean
Hands down the most famous prisoner of the Robben Island prison.
Nelson Mandela
Name the Beijing prison that was used to confine the most important participants in the Chinese democracy movement and Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Qincheng
Carabanchel Prison was constructed by political prisoners following the 1936-39 Civil War of this country and was one of the biggest in Europe till it was closed in 1998.
Spain
The eleven places that constitute this country's World Heritage Convict Sites include Port Arthur, Freemantle Prison, and Cockatoo Island.
Australia
Now Isla de la Juventud, it was called the Isle of Pines when this man was imprisoned there from 1953 to 1955.
Fidel Castro
Kambangan Island of Indonesia is known for its maximum security prisons and for housing several high profile prisoners from the days of the Dutch occupation. It is off the coast of this island, the most populous island in the world.
Java
Tadmor prison in Syria was the site of a cold-blooded massacre in 1982 when summary executions were ordered following an attempt on this dictator's life.
Hafez al-Assad
This Norwegian island was home to an infamous boys prison for decades the details of which were seen in the movie King of Devil's Island.
Bastøy
The highly classified Camp 1391 is operated by the defense forces of this country.
Israel
The Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands housed several prisoner's during this country's freedom struggle and is now a national monument.
India
Billy Hayes who was imprisoned in Sağmalcılar Prison in Turkey wrote this autobiographical book of his accounts which later became an Oliver Stone movie.
Midnight Express
Just like its main airport, the main prison of this country is also Changi.
Singapore
As of 2018, 41 detainees remain at this place that was called the "Gulag of our times" by a 2005 Amnesty International report.
Guantanamo
El Rodeo and La Sabaneta are/were two of the notorious prisons of this South American country that has seen economic strife in recent times.
Venezuela
Name one of the three major prisons of the Paris area.
Fleury-Mérogis, La Santé, and Fresnes
This London prison that existed from 1188 to 1902 is referenced in several works of literature including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Newgate
The Hoa Loa Prison which housed John McCain has this more famous name coined by American POWs.
Hanoi Hilton
Known for its prominent role in one of the world's greatest upheavals, it was originally constructed during the 14th century to withstand English threat during the Hundred Years' War.
Bastille
Spandau Prison in West Berlin was demolished in the late 1980s after the death of its last inmate, this Nazi.
Rudolf Hess
The Petak Island Prison in the middle of a remote lake in this country has been compared to Alcatraz.
Russia
Before it was featured in a really cool Steve McQueen movie, it also famously served as the site where Captain Dreyfus was imprisoned from 1894 to 1899 after being wrongly convicted of espionage.
Devil's Island (movie: Papillon)
Fleet prison of London that takes the name of a nearby river existed for centuries and is vividly described in this first novel of Charles Dickens.
The Pickwick Papers
Kilmainham Gaol has a prominent place in the history of this country as it housed many famous figures during its independence struggle.
Ireland
São Paulo prison that was the site of a 1992 massacre which inspired an acclaimed 2003 drama film by Héctor Babenco.
Carandiru
Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart housed Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader in the 1970s who were members of this terrorist group.
Red Army Faction
In the jokes of Soviet Union, this KGB headquarters that also housed a prison was called the tallest building in Moscow because Siberia could be seen from its basement!
Lubyanka
When the name of Insein Prison of Myanmar is mentioned, the only name that should come to mind is that of this Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Aung San Suu Kyi