On this date in 1968 Johnny Cash performed for 2,000 inmates at Folsom State Prison in California. Those performances were released as the album At Folsom Prison and hit number one on the Billboard ...

Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.

In Ryan George’s wonderful “Pitch Meeting” series, on YouTube, the excitable producer character, relishing the eager screenwriter character’s ability to load a conflict with life-or-death consequences ...