Creative artists who have served time in prison

People who are primarily known as creative artists who have served time in prison.
Musicians
* GG Allin
* Gene Ammons
* Don Baker
* Chuck Berry
* James Booker
* Ian Brown
* James Brown
* Bertrand Cantat
* Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. a.k.a. Lil Wayne
* David Crosby
* Pete Doherty
* Phil Driscoll
* Steve Earle
* Gary Glitter
* Merle Haggard
* Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr., a.k.a. T.I.
* Lyfe Jennings
* Kimberly Denise Jones, a.k.a. Lil' Kim
* Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard
* Cris Kirkwood
* Hudy William Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly
* Tommy Lee
* Inga Marchand, a.k.a. Foxy Brown
* Corey Miller, a.k.a. C-Murder
* Vince Neil
* Barry Adrian Reese, a.k.a. Cassidy
* Tupac Shakur
* Ike Turner
* Varg Vikernes
* Ryan Montgomery, a.k.a. Royce Da 5'9
* Sid Vicious
* Christopher George Latore Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.
* Ricky Walters, a.k.a. Slick Rick
* Scott Weiland
* John Austin IV, a.k.a. Ras Kass
Visual artists
* Henri Cartier-Bresson
* Gustave Courbet
* Richard Dadd
* Honoré Daumier
* Jacques-Louis David
* Max Ernst
* Nicholas Hilliard
* Lin Fengmian
* Egon Schiele
* John Trumbull
* Vann Nath
* Wang Du
Writers
* Brendan Behan
* Aphra Behn
* Joseph Brodsky
* John Bunyan
* William S. Burroughs
* William S. Burroughs, Jr.
* Miguel de Cervantes
* Daniel Defoe
* John Donne
* Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* Anthony Faramus
* Stephen Fry
* Akbar Ganji
* Jean Genet
* Václav Havel
* Ken Kesey
* Etheridge Knight
* Sir Thomas Malory
* John Milton
* Juan Carlos Onetti
* William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. O. Henry
* Irina Ratushinskaya
* Bertrand Russell
* Marquis de Sade
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* Wole Soyinka
* Pramoedya Ananta Toer
* Voltaire
* Oscar Wilde
Footnotes
1. "." in Glass on Metal: The Enamelists Magazine. Volume 18, Number 3, October 1999.
2. Htein Lin. "From a Burmese Prison, a Chronicle of Pain in Paint" New York Times, August 12, 2007.
Citations
See Also
* Prison literature in the United States

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