Making art served many purposes. Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and author of Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost ...

But he took issue with how heavily it was tied to prison life. Though he became a painter while imprisoned, he said his art is about so much more. “I noticed that people started to call us ...

Artist Jesse Krimes remembers the despair he felt every time he was forced to stand for a mug shot. Each time, he stared down the lens with a mixture of disgust, defiance, and dejection.

Art is life. Outside and inside ... religion–primarily Catholicism–prison life, oppression and, of course, family. The Rudy Padilla Collection artworks and archive are significant resources ...

Reading Borough Council believes Banksy contributing his art to the prison suggests he is backing the campaign to save it. Actress Kate Winslet, who is from Reading, told the BBC she believed the ...