The desperate prisoner who tried to sue Satan in 1971
The Devil doesn’t need an advocate, it turns out.
Prison
The Clink: How London’s oldest prison gave jails everywhere their nickname
I mean, abolish them immediately, but they’re still pretty interesting.
Pascal Payet: the helicopter-assisted prison escape artist
Sometimes, things really are like the movies.
Adult star Bonnie Blue arrested and may face 15 years in Bali prison
Indonesia has strict anti-pornography laws.
‘The Concrete Jungle’: The long-awaited return of the ‘women in prison’ cult classic
‘The Concrete Jungle,’ (1982) 22×31” Original Thai poster. Artist: Larry Salk Like so many 1970s tots with a taste for lurid, inappropriate, forbidden thrills, in…
Raymond Chandler’s guide to prison, street, and Hollywood slang
Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s film version of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Long Goodbye.’ Raymond Chandler wanted to call his second Philip Marlowe…
Why can’t you read the punk history ‘American Hardcore’ in California state prison?
If you get sent up the river in California and you like to read about music, better stick to biographies of Tommy Dorsey and Rudy…
Bad girls behind bars: Vintage ‘women in prison’ exploitation movie posters
A movie poster for the 1986 film ‘Reform School Girls’ with Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning and Andy Warhol pal Pat Ast (pictured prominently above).…
Russian prison tattoo-themed plateware (NSFW)
In Russian tattoos, the cat symbolizes a successful thief It was just a couple of weeks ago that we brought you old-school ceramics with pictures…