The east gate at Folsom State Prison in Folsom in 2017. The Big House Prison Museum, located at the warden’s house on the fringe of the historic facility, has closed temporarily. Randall Benton ...

The Men of Character program at Folsom State Prison empowers inmates through community service and character-building.

A multiyear KQED investigation and an eight-part podcast called On Our Watch found a persistent code of silence among New Folsom officers that went largely unchecked by prison leadership and the ...

"It's seldom that any artist is able to achieve that sort of thing in one fell swoop. [Folsom Prison] was a singular event in musical history and in Johnny Cash's life." Officials have been ...

Johnny Cash, backed by an all-star ensemble of talent, stepped on stage at California State Prison in Folsom on this day in history, Jan. 13, 1968. It proved one of the most legendary concerts in ...

Cash had an emotional connection to Folsom Prison long before he performed there. While stationed in Germany in the early 1950s, he saw the film Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison. He wasn’t even ...

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 ...