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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eleven years of detention can profoundly mark a life, but they can also represent an opportunity for transformation. This is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — How is the museum like a prison? At the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), the curator Risa Puleo offers challenging answers to this sweeping question with the exhibition Walls Turned ...

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, ...