July 27, 2024
Tag: electric chair
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Inside Sing Sing Prison and The Mutual Welfare League
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Forty miles north of New York City, “up the Hudson River,” Sing Sing Prison got a new warden in 1915. Thomas Mott Osborne ushered in a wave of penal reform. Out went the lockstep, in came (limited) prisoner self-governance. T. Fred Robbins, a nearby photographer and constable, was allowed to document many of the changes…
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June 18, 2020 2 Comments
The word “research” suggests that we are always seeking the discovery and interpretation of new knowledge. It is the phrase “of new knowledge” that bothers me, for what if the researcher is looking for “old knowledge” yet to be learned? This is a philosophical conundrum for someone other than me to fathom, so for now here is some old knowledge that is well worth learning.