October 15, 2026
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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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If you believe, haunted hotels are beautiful. If you’re a non-believer, haunted hotels are creepy. The problem is one never knows if you’re sleeping in a haunted hotel until you hear things go bump-in-the-night. Oooh! Boo!