Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were hoping to see memorabilia from Johnny Cash’s famous concert at the old Folsom Prison, or perhaps a hemp rope from ...

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 ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Nascimento Blair lived inside Sing Sing Prison, in Ossining, ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Huntsville's Texas Prison Museum is unlike any museum in the world. It is home to the good and bad history of the incarceration system. The first thing you will see when you walk ...

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 ...

OSSINING, N.Y. -- An old power plant at Sing Sing that once supplied the juice for the electric chair is being eyed as the site for a museum dedicated to the infamous prison. Supporters envision ...

The original cell block of the famous Sing Sing Correctional Facility, built in 1828, will play a new role in the justice system. The imposing, historic structure which once housed 1,200 incarcerated ...

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 ...

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 ...