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The Forgotten Tale of How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village Into a Prison

Loaded on Nov. 22, 2016

Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems, Overcrowding, Prison Tourism/Consumerism, Rural Prisons. Location: New York.

Budget approval for a small New York town to host the games came with one very large caveat.

By Brianna Nofil, Atlas Obscura

For two weeks in the winter of 1980, a small town in upstate New York had an Olympic Village filled with 1,800 of the world’s most elite ...

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