Category: Prison Art

Christina Lau refused to resign to fate after she was paralysed from the chest down and lost her finger movement completely after a car accident in 2005. Some 17 years later, in 2022, she put Singapore on the map by clinching a bronze medal in …

If you like to read about the grisly details of crime (usually murders), look no further than 364.1523 in the nonfiction shelves on the top level of the library. Stay informed without getting too close. THE ART THIEF: A True Story of Love, Crime, and …

OLD LYME — “Any project like this requires a great deal of trust. We come in not knowing what to expect, but trusting that music is such an unparalleled tool to activate people’s creativity,” said Brad Balliett, a bassoonist for Decoda, a collective of chamber …

Angola rough-riders opened up the rodeo show riding around the arena with large flags. A broken arm, torn ligaments and a life sentence cannot stop Myron Smith. He is a Louisiana cowboy.  This is Angola Prison, where Smith serves for first-degree murder. An hour northwest …

A court in Moscow has sentenced the exiled Russian-Canadian artist and activist Pyotr Verzilov to eight and a half years in prison for charges of spreading false information about the Russian Armed Forces online. The verdict from Basmanny District Court, which included a four-year ban …

From Las Vegas to London to New Orleans, the criminal, boxing and showbiz fraternities have always rubbed shoulders, generally in glamorous surroundings. In New Orleans, long prominent in those fraternities was Fouad Zeton, a Syrian-born light heavyweight who won half of his professional bouts, sparred …

Rahsaan Thomas rounds the corner for his 105th—you read that right, 105th—lap. He’s running the San Quentin Prison Marathon, where he doesn’t exactly have the privilege of breezing past landmarks and skyscrapers and adoring fans. Hence the 105 laps, round and round in the prison …