If I had spent three days in the Tombs prison, as you did, I would be nothing but a wraith, a tattered remnant.

After being convicted Marcus was sent to Tombs prison in Upstate New York where he spent three months before being released on bond.

He was held at the Tombs prison in Manhattan until January 1967, awaiting deportation to Canada on charges related to the bombing of shoe factory in Montreal in the early 60's that killed a secretary at the plant.

They were a pretty hard-looking crew, and eventually we figured out that they were inmates from the actual Tombs prison, upstairs from us.

I was in a holding cell at Central Booking, in the basement of the Tombs prison, for about thirty-two hours.

After this insurrection failed, Mellows escaped to the United States, where he was arrested and detained without trial in the "Tombs" prison, New York, on a charge of attempting to aid the German side in the First World War.

A newspaper photo shows Thaw in The Tombs prison seated at a formal table setting, dining on a meal catered for him by Delmonico's restaurant.

All 74 madams rounded up during a purity drive in 1884 named Howe and Hummel as their counsel, and at one time the firm represented 23 out of the 25 prisoners awaiting trial for murder in the city's Tombs prison and had an undeclared interest in the twenty-fourth.