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

Read more about this story and why we reported it here. The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T.

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 ...

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 ...

He was able to escape the prison every night using nothing more than things like the tin foil that came in Bugler tobacco packs, pieces of pressed cardboard that lined the bottom of wood pallets found ...