Inside Folsom Prison 50 Years After Johnny Cash Made It Famous

[@catecalvertarriola3986]

Johnny's prison concerts were the best mental health therapy these men embraced. I'll bet many of them were hugely humbled by his lyrics and appearance. Love Johnny & June's music and life story.

[@salsagardens9570]

I still remember my one and only time in prison as a youngster having a good talking with myself on that prison yard, and as I walked the track, tears flowing from my eyes, Ide wipe away slick like as if I was sweating and telling myself that " this is not he life for you" cause I saw how, to many it was like ( meant to be ) and since many were enamored, almost needy, dependent and to some even hopelessly institutional to the max! I knew GOD had something better! And although life's been hell since 1996 when paroled from Folsom, i still consider it way better than prison!

[@danieltoscano7144]

W😗W , VERY TOUCHING 😲. WELL YOURE DEFINITELY NOT ALONE BEING THAT I TO DONE THAT SAME WALK TO 😢. ITS ALL BEHIND ME NOW 😍. LIVING THE GOOD LIFE AS IF IT WERE MY LAST 🙏🏻. MY UTMOST RESPECTS TO YOU 👍

[@irishroverandthecrew]

Johnny's best songs were prison songs, he saw the world though eyes of a prisoner and there is nothing more real or painful than having no freedom, which us prisoners know best. Recall one of the prisoners in documentary saying 'our only crime is beeing born poor...' Go figure who's in jail these days, surely not the rich, politicians or bankers... Johnny knew about injustice that remains to this day.

[@pegg38]

Thank God. Teach a man a trade and treat them humanly. A blessing to see and an answer to prayer.

[@imanobody5898]

And then my 2nd favorite boys los tigres del norte came

[@carguy_6618]

I love Mr Johnny Cash

[@elscampo2524]

He wrote this song in Germany where I am living.

[@davidsakamoto9353]

Absolutely heartbreaking how little Johnny Cash’s attempts are reform actually got. If anything prisons are worse than ever focusing on punishment more than rehabilitation.

[@alflores4438]

I did time there in old Folsom caught my first booking and went to Corcoran shu then pelican bay shu

[@emiliobello2538]

RIP Johnny Cash

[@brianmarcum8306]

This is a great album.

[@John-p9m2c]

Fun fact: Johnny cash helped release one of the prisoners

[@jamesagwe2981]

Yeah it was Merle haggard

[@John-p9m2c]

James Agwe dammm

[@tulayamalavenapi4028]

He assisted the parole of a musician, and gave him a chance to be in his group. The guy was okay for awhile, then his sinful mentality crept back. He committed suicide. Glen Sherley.... "He lapsed back into crime and drugs, and Cash pushed him out of his performing group. Eventually, Sherley settled in Gonzales, where he committed suicide on May 11, 1978, at age 42."

[@Riversidecountyie]

Johnny cash helped release one of the prisoners

[@Riversidecountyie]

Tf is the fact

[@mqbitsko25]

50 years later prison STILL isn't fun? Dang, I guess I'd better not break the law.

[@mqbitsko25]

The song predates the concert by well over a decade.

[@djangobarber7996]

People go to California for the jailtoo

[@rascal462]

I lived there for 3 years building #5🤣😂💯

[@vernondjoe]

Los Tigres Del Norte!

[@t-musings3134]

I knew he was innocent

[@Krezo200]

Lol at the subtitles

[@daniellebrunet5482]

HOW DARE THEY SPEAK FOR HIM 😈😈😈

[@nickrogers4915]

Death row rooms used for storage, they were used for storage back then too.

[@RodzFlo06]

What about los tigres del norte

[@andersonlopez9790]

Only Jhonny cash and Los Tigres del Norte have performed there right?

[@yachtabaco]

They forgot to ad that Gordon Jenkins sued Cash for plagiarism and violation of copyright law for Folsom Prison Blues , and won. Cash had to pay near $100k. The song was a rewrite of Jenkins' Crescent City Blues . .. . Jenkins let it go until it became a hit in 1968, and then he sued Cash, for his due.

[@eratime2686]

I was named after Folsom Prison

[@daniellebrunet5482]

NO CLUE ABOUT HIS LIFE

[@vangcha5757]

Many are also learning how to take another man's cheeks

[@GOD-ti9xp]

Vang Cha like you

[@1nine89]

Stop telling us about your fantasies.

[@randycastillo838]

Honestly if I had a business I would totally hire felons why? Cause nobody else does, that’s free PR which means more media and people wanting to come to do business with me and other business following that path.

[@wendellcibulka366]

And now we have Newsom. What a nonsense.

[@skanhunt4256]

Lol dude didn’t make it famous. San quinten and Folsom has been famous. Esp in Cali.

[@shenikamckinney5428]

Johnny Cash jail