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'Jacob Green' offers an even fiercer indictment of the prison system. A young man busted for the simple offense of possession is humiliated and abused by his guards resulting suicide. America's worst-in-the-free-world prison system would become dramatically worse following the height of Cash's prison advocacy and chart popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The nation's so-called 'war on drugs' and 'get tough on crime' hysteria fostered during the Nixon Administration and accelerated under Ronald Reagan did nothing to abate drug use or reduce crime, but prison populations exploded as petty criminals and drug users were locked away. Today, America imprisons more people than any other democracy on earth by a wide margin. A disproportionate percentage of these inmates were and are Black and poor. America's system of 'criminal justice' from policing to prosecution to punishment has always been rigged against poor people and minorities. Cash saw this 50-plus years ago. He was awake to the injustice. Woke. The singer testified before Congress and met with Nixon in 1972 to discuss prison reform. Still a patriot through and through, despite it all, Cash exposed the stupidity of the old right-wing saw, 'love it or leave it.' Cash loved it and wanted to use his songs to make it better. He knew America wasn't perfect. That obvious conclusion didn't mean he didn't love it. Johnny Cash At Folsom And San Quentin "The Prison Concerts: Folsom And San Quentin (Jim Marshall's Photographs of Johnny Cash)," installation view at the Momentary in Bentonville, AR. Jared Sorrells photography for the Momentary. Cash first played at Folsom in 1966. He wrote 'Folsom Prison Blues' way back in 1953, his first big hit. The song came to him after watching 'Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison' (1951) while serving in the Air Force in West Germany. In 1968, Johnny Cash was spiraling personally and professionally. An idea he pitched to his record label many years prior of performing live at the notorious state prison in Folsom, CA was finally approved after a leadership shakeup at Columbia Records. The company's hopes were not high. Conventional wisdom held that country music's ultra-conservative, Bible-thumping, 'law and order,' fan base wouldn't be interested in hearing Cash sing to and dignify criminals. On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash showed up at Folsom for the show along with June Carter–the duo would marry two weeks later–his band, the Tennessee Three, and opening acts and background singers the Statler Brothers and Carl Perkins. Then history happened. Cash turned in a fully engaged performance for the ages. When the album was released later that spring, the public went wild. Number one album. Number one single. Grammy award. Cash actually played two separate shows that day, assuring the album would have enough quality recorded material to choose from. The first take was nearly perfect. Cash was back, off the strength of a live album recorded in a maximum-security prison to an audience most country music fans would recommend be executed, not entertained. Such is the power of music. The following year, he gave a similarly lauded in-person, in prison performance at San Quentin. He performed for inmates multiple times. Jim Marshall Johnny, June, and the band were joined by music photographer Jim Marshall at the Folsom and San Quentin concerts. Requested personally by Cash, Marshall was the only official photographer present at the concerts and granted unlimited access. Twenty-five photographs documenting the two concerts, including candid and performance images helping solidify Cash as an outlaw king can be seen through October 12, 2025, at The Momentary, an art exhibition and live music space, in Bentonville, AR, Cash's home state. 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