The Time Johnny Cash Almost Started a Prison Riot at San Quentin

The Time Johnny Cash Almost Started a Prison Riot at San Quentin

“I think this is a very important thing: to give a man some hope in prison, to give a man some encouragement to be a better citizen while he is there and if he is a better citizen, while he is there, he is going to come out a better citizen.” –Johnny Cash, testifying before the House Committee on the Judiciary, 1972 * There were signs hanging from the red wall behind the stage in the north dining hall—­a few words and some musical notes that had…