CARLISLE, Ind. — For most of the men of cell house N, the quarter-mile walk around the prison yard to the chow hall and back is just the price they pay for breakfast. The heavy steel doors open ...

This is the only Tennessee prison with a yard where we can touch grass. People housed at other facilities are almost never ...

That’s largely because Thomas didn’t have those ingredients at the chow hall in Corcoran State Prison. An inmate in the California prison system for nearly 30 years of his life, he was used to ...

The cell block was freezing, and the constant fear of roaches crawling inside his ears caused him to keep his clothes, boots, ...

But he was wary of whether such a historic site could again be made into a modern prison complex. Sitting in what had been the chow hall, Londoners Chris Manikowski and Naomi Alexandra said that ...

Inside, the only obvious signs that one remains in prison are the artists' state-issued white uniforms and security staff looking on. The tattoo studio is in a retrofitted, long-vacant chow hall.

For years, the prison carried out executions by hanging at the gallows ... One spot on the tour is the Chow Hall, where the late country music legend Johnny Cash performed for inmates in 1970. “Johnny ...