If you were hoping to see memorabilia from Johnny Cash’s famous concert at the old Folsom Prison, or perhaps a hemp rope from which prisoners were once hanged at the notorious Represa facility, you’re ...

JACKSON, MI - Michigan Gov. John Bagley said in 1873, "If there is a dreary spot upon the face of the earth, it is inside the walls of the Jackson Prison." The quote is just an iota of the history ...

Join Next City Contributor Emily Nonko for our webinar with Brent Glass and Sean Pica, executive director and board member of Sing Sing Prison Museum, as they discuss the process of opening a prison ...

Officials said the museum would be closed while operators "reassess its current operations and standing." The Folsom Prison Big House Museum will close its doors for at least a couple of months, the ...

Inside the San Quentin Prison Museum, preserved under glass, is the rope used to hang Rattlesnake James in 1942. James — who earned his sobriquet after putting his wife's leg in a box with two ...

A collection of leg restraints that were used at Folsom prison are displayed at the Folsom Prison Museum. Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 166 on Aug. 17, which allows the Department of General ...

Meris Westberg of Jablonski Building Conservation works to preserve a calendar scratched by an inmate into a cell wall at the historic Burlington County Prison. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Camden and Cherry ...

HUNTSVILLE - Deep in thought, the two men stared hard into the glass-fronted cabinet at the Texas Prison Museum. There, under harsh fluorescent glow, lay Texas' implements of execution: three ...

FOLSOM (CBS13) - Johnny Cash isn't the only man to make history at Folsom State Prison. There's a new effort to take all the prison's stories and build a massive big house prison museum. "I think ...

FILE - This Feb. 4, 1980 file photo shows guards at the New Mexico State Penitentiary cleaning up cell block six at the prison in Sante Fe, N.M. The New Mexico Corrections Department may reopen its ...

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