According to data from the Prison Policy Initiative, more than 1.9 million people in the United States are incarcerated in prisons, local jails, and other detention facilities. Additionally, one in ...

A Christmas party in prison presented me with one of the first opportunities I had to spend quality time with my teenage ...

The door to mission work in the former Soviet Union began to open in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down. In August 1991, communism was overthrown in the USSR, and the former Soviet republics became ...

Shaka Senghor has built an extraordinary career helping people escape what he calls “invisible prisons”, the mental and emotional barriers that prevent individuals from reaching their full potential.

Two white collar inmates talk about their experience. Chris Maselli and Jeff Smith seemed to have it all -- at one point. Maselli was an up-and-coming State Senator in Rhode Island and Jeff Smith, ...

The Folsom Prison Experience is an immersive tribute drama that takes you back in time. On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash performed a concert for Folsom prisoners and recorded a live album. The show is ...

I went to Southern Oaks Girls School (a girls' prison) on Feb. 21. I got high and snorted some Adderall before I went to court that day. Doing drugs was a daily routine for me. It was like brushing my ...

“Pure Hell.” That’s how John “Divine G” Whitfield describes a part of his experience at the Sing Sing correctional facility, a maximum security prison in Ossining, New York state, where he served a 25 ...

The historic Folsom prison evening in 1968 will be faithfully recreated in an interactive theater setting at The Pabst Theater on Friday, Jan. 19 - complete with prison guards keeping the "inmates" in ...

bergenPAC has announced The Folsom Prison Experience: A Johnny Cash Music & Theater Production on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 at 11 a.m. Visit ...