“Dance with the Devil” by Immortal Technique is about a boy named Billy Jacobs and his struggles of living in the ghetto. Coming from a dysfunctional family and living in the projects in New York, Billy wanted to make a name for himself. He participated in many criminal acts in
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The San Quentin Murals, painted by Alfredo Santos, depict the history of California through the eyes of an inmate. The murals were created over 50 years ago by then inmate, Alfredo, who was serving a 4 year sentence for the possession of heroin. Alfredo submitted a sketch in a competition
The statue of Joe Paterno was removed the morning of July 22 because of what it represented. What was once a shrine dedicated to a man who worked for the university for over 60 years quickly turned into a symbol of selfishness, neglect, and abuse when Paterno did the bare
The film, “The Godfather”, is a great example of art and crime. In this film, the Mafia and its crime oriented behaviors are glorified into a film. This scene shows an epic point in the film where Michael Corleone, son of ‘Godfather’, kills a crooked police man and another mafia
In South London a group of artist were jailed because they graffiti a wall. As you can see the picture includes a brown wall with a police officer taking a picture next to a dog and words being painted which is “One Nation Under CCTV”, by a teen in a
Mara Salvatrucha also known as MS, Mara, and MS-13 is one of the world’s most ruthless gangs. They are estimated to become even more of a threat than the mafia as the country’s most organized criminal network. Most of the members have tattoos in order to identify themselves with the
This article shows artwork collected by an art teacher within the prisons. Taking a closer look at the artwork, one can see many different aspects of life on the inside. You can see such emotion and sorrow within the drawings. One had a man half dressed in jail stripes, the
During Greek week our beneficiary was Chelsea’s Light Foundation in which our proceeds went to the foundation and we contributed to create this master peace in honor of Chelsea King. This young girl was murdered by a convicted sex offender and for that reason the Chelsea’s law was founded on
A 19th century Spanish fresco has been ruined after a good Samaritan attempted a DIY restoration of the artwork. Mendalism at its absolute worst.
From a recent Minneapolis Star-Tribune story: The tattoo on Jenkins’ [the dude pictured above; sadly, no pic of the tattoo itself] left bicep depicts a person holding a semi-automatic handgun with the barrel of the gun partially in the mouth of a pig, according to a criminal complaint. The tattoo