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Detail from a state chariot showing the vanquished and enslaved enemies of Egypt, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Detail from the ceremonial footstool of the king, showing conquered adversaries and enemies of Egypt including a Syrian, Libyan, Nubian and Sudanese, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Detail from the ceremonial footstool of the king, showing conquered adversaries and enemies of Egypt, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Detail from the ceremonial footstool of the king showing the enemies of Egypt conquered and beneath the yoke of the pharaoh, from the tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Prisoner of the victorious Mayan ruler, Room 2, Temple of Murals, Bonampak Archaeological Zone, Chiapas, Mexico, North America

A room used for torturing prisoners of the Khmer Rouge, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Rooms where prisoners of the Khmer Rouge were held and tortured, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Hellfire Pass Museum, on the infamous Thai-Burmese Death Railway built by prisoners of war under the Japanese, Hellfire Pass, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Entrance of Bunk'art 2 exhibiting photos of convicts by the communist regime between 1912 and 1991, Abdi Toptani Street in downtown Tirana, Albania, Europe

Mask of Sorrow commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps, Magadan, Magadan Oblast, Russia, Eurasia

Prisoners barracks, Birkenau Concentration Camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Oswiecim, Poland, Europe

The "Petrified" a group of shrouded, life-size figures by Swiss artist Carl Bucher denouncing the violation of human rights at the entrance of the Museum of the International Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland

Railway line and platform where prisoners were unloaded and separated into able bodied men, kept for work, and woman and children who were taken to gas chambers, Auschwitz second concentration camp at Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cra

Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa between 1994 and 1999, and anti-apartheid hero, at an event on behalf of his 46664, his Robben Island prisoner number, HIV/AIDS campaign, Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa

Railway line and platform where prisoners were unloaded and separated into able bodied men, kept for work, and woman and children who were taken to gas chambers, Auschwitz second concentration camp at Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cra

Selection shed where prisoners were unloaded and separated into able bodied men, kept for work, and woman and children who were taken to gas chambers, Auschwitz second concentration camp at Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cracow), Polan

The wall between blocks 10 and 11 where thousands of prisoners were executed by firing squad, Auschwitz concentration camp, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Oswiecim, near Krakow (Cracow), Poland, Europe

Monk hangs a caged Laughing Thrush onto a branch in the Monk's Garden, The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xian, China

The wall between blocks 10 and 11 where thousands of prisoners were executed by firing squad, Auschwitz concentration camp, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Oswiecim, near Krakow (Cracow), Poland, Europe

Laughing Thrush in cage hanging on a branch in the Monk's Garden at The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xian, China

Railway line and platform where prisoners were unloaded and separated into able bodied men, kept for work, and woman and children who were taken to gas chambers, Auschwitz second concentration camp at Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cra

Wooden sheds, formerly stables for horses, that each held 500 prisoners, many now demolished, but chimneys still stand in the background, Auschwitz second concentration camp at Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cracow), Poland, Europe

Wooden sheds, formerly stables for horses, that each held 500 prisoners, many now demolished, but chimneys still stand in the background, Auschwitz second concentration camp at Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cracow), Poland, Europe

The rail entry where all prisoners came, Auschwitz second concentration camp at Birkenau, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Krakow (Cracow), Poland, Europe

Reliefs dating from the late 12th and 13th centuries, Bayon, Angkor Thom, Angkor, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

The Southern Fuegian Railway, or the railway at the end of the world near the town of Ushuaia which is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, in Argentina. It was originally built to transport prisoners from the local prison.

Abu Simbel, Aswan, Egypt. Relief mural depicting captured Nubians at the Great Temple of Ramesses II.

Elemental forms of chortens in the valley of chortens below Shey. The king had ordered prisoners to build chortens for merit. Shey, Ladakh, India

Elemental forms of chortens in the valley of chortens below Shey. The king had ordered prisoners to build chortens for merit. Shey, Ladakh, India

Graffiti by prisoners in the Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, UNESCO World Heritage Site, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Graffiti by prisoners in the Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, UNESCO World Heritage Site, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Graffiti by prisoners in the Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, UNESCO World Heritage Site, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Prisoners sculptures and facade of El Presidio, the former prison, now the Maritime museum and Presidio museum. Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina

El Presidio, the former prison, now the Maritime museum and Presidio museum. Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina

Nippes Kulturrevolution, Mao Figuren, Nippes, Kitsch, Nostalgie, Ikone, Kulturrevolution, Viererbande, Gang of Four, Erniedrigung des Klassenfeindes, Politische Opfer, Propaganda, Diktator, Porzellan, china ware, Keramik, Bronze, Cultural Revolution, political victim, prisoner, Rote Garde, Red Guard, Souvenir, aus: "Mythos Shanghai", Shanghai, Sachbuch, Bildband, Fotos Karl Johaentges, Text Erich Follath, Verlag, Collection Rolf Heyne, 2005

Neuengamme concentration camp memorial site, SS main guard building with guard tower, right, prisoner block 1-4, centre, foundations of the detainee block, emerging thunderstorm, Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe

A dummy hangs where condemned prisoners were hanged at the West Virginia Penitentiary before an electric chair was installed; the prison was constructed in 1866 and closed in 1995 after a court ruled that the prison's 5x7-foot cells were cruel and unusual

Dove of peace freeing prisoners, Amnesty International, painting on the remants of the Berlin Wall, East Side Gallery, Friedrichshain district, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Posts with name tags of Jewish prisoners, memorial at Hessental Concentration Camp, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Memorial place in Hohenschoenhausen, former state security service prison for prisoners of the GDR, Hohenschoenhausen, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Posts with name tags of Jewish prisoners, memorial at Hessental Concentration Camp, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Posts with name tags of Jewish prisoners in front of a carriage used to transport the prisoners, memorial at Hessental Concentration Camp, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Posts with name tags of Jewish prisoners in front of a carriage used to transport the prisoners, memorial at Hessental Concentration Camp, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Prison Island, formerly the site where slaves were held prisoner before their shipping, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

Memorial for the Dachau Death March near Schloss Blutenburg Castle, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, PublicGround

Historic architecture in the penal colony of Darlington, Maria Island National Park, Tasmania, Australia

Historic architecture in the penal colony of Darlington, Maria Island National Park, Tasmania, Australia

Memorial stone at the cremated remains of thousands of unknown prisoners, concentration camp, Dachau near Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Prisoners' carvings dating to around 1480, Carlisle Castle, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Clay pots piled on a tomb of the Lord of Sipan archeological site near Chiclayo, Peru in the Lambayeque Valley. Archaeologists uncovered burial places of several lesser important figures besides royalty at Sipan. One, a high priest, had a tomb almost as impressive as the royal ones. Another burial contained 1,137 pots shaped into warriors, priests, prisoners, musicians, and anthropomorphic deities, Sipan, Peru

Inside The Mamertine Prison, This Metal Grate In The Floor Covers Where The Prisoners Were Lowered Into Their Prison Cell, Rome, Italy

Inside The Mamertine Prison, This Metal Grate In The Floor Covers Where The Prisoners Were Lowered Into Their Prison Cell, Rome, Italy

SLOVENIA Triglav National Park Julian Mountain Range Ruska Kapelica The Russian Chapel 1915 -17 - the pyramid on the right is a memorial to 100 Russian Prisoners of War killed in an avalanche whilst building the road through the Julian Alps Monument architecture wooden building highly decorated stone pyramid onion domes