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 ...

Any list of the greatest live albums of all-time would become null and void without the inclusion of Johnny Cash’s record At Folsom Prison.

Two Folsom State Prison inmates are accused of trying to kill a third inmate with an improvised weapon, authorities said Thursday.

Johnny Cash — cigarette in hand, smoke rings puffing from his mouth — pauses at Folsom State Prison's front gates in Dan Poush's photograph.

When Johnny Cash stepped onstage at Folsom State Prison on Jan. 13, 1968, for the concerts that would change his life, he was in rough shape. His record label had threatened to drop him, his ...

Prison officials are still searching for a minimum-security inmate who escaped from Folsom State Prison on Saturday, and authorities are requesting the public’s assistance in locating him.

FOLSOM, Calif. — “STOP: No visitors beyond this point,” warns the sign overlooking the hand-hewn gray granite walls, vaulted gate and peaked Gothic guard tower of Folsom State Prison. It’s ...

The Big House Prison Museum in Folsom, where visitors can see hanging ropes and Johnny Cash memorabilia, has closed as operators “reassess.” ...

Prison guards shot into a crowd to stop 200 rioting inmates at California's Folsom State Prison, wounding five, authorities said Saturday.

So an appropriate Folsom "east gate" mural was created on the Impala's trunk, complete with a collage of skulls and prison bars to remind onlookers of where this car's from.INTERIOR: A mostly OG ...

Irony isn’t something the residents of Folsom State Prison spend much time contemplating.

He'd done prison shows dating to the 1950s, including a nonrecorded concert at Folsom in 1966. That performance planted the seed for a live prison album, an idea Cash sold to his record company.