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.

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 ...

1. That the Folsom show wasn’t the first time Cash played in prison. He’d actually been playing for inmates for over a decade by 1968, with his first such show taking place at Huntsville, in ...

Chad Deal, a spokesperson for Folsom State Prison, said he learned earlier this week about the closure from the chair of the nonprofit Old Guard Foundation, which runs the museum.

Dan Poush's 'Before the Performance; Blowing Smoke Rings' captures Johnny Cash before he walks through Folsom State Prison's front gates on Jan. 13, 1968.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It's a miracle that he sang for them at all. In the six months prior to his Folsom shows, Cash was "in some of the worst shape of his life," Hilburn says.Battling drug addiction at the time, he ...