October 10, 2024
Tag: lockstep
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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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You memorized some Keats and Shelley.
And, you’ve heard of Yeats and more.
Surely you read old Bill the Bard and decoded his sonnets, too.
About Rudyard Kipling, you know his Knighthood he declined.
For Brendan Behan no one knows if sober he ever was, but for all you know of
this awesome lot, there is one you do not know. It’s safe for you may say, if you
may or could, that you have never heard of Thomas Hood.