In 1998, producer Rick Rubin pulled a stunt featuring a 1960s-era photo of Johnny Cash giving the middle finger, aiming it at Nashville.

Mendoza speaks with Insider about rivalry with the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood, corrupt prison guards, attacks, and uprisings. He offers his opinions on San Quentin reform and rehabilitation.

In 1957, he played to inmates at Huntsville State Prison in Texas, and followed that with his first concert at San Quentin, also in California. On New Year’s Day in 1959, as well as the same day ...

I used to have the chili con carne recipe from San Quentin Prison; the warden sent it to me in the 1960s when I worked at Howard Johnson's. Unfortunately, I lost it, but it was very similar to this ...

Show more Behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison in California, three men sentenced to life for murder undertake running a marathon. Training all year, their route is unconventional ...

There are vocals by prison songbirds; a short speech by smart, humane Warden Clinton Duffy; a few words, for instance, from the inmate who has donated the most blood to the San Quentin blood bank.