December 8, 2025
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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July 4, 2023 2 Comments
George Meade wanted to attend college and study law. Instead he enrolled at West Point and with the exception of a few years, became a career military officer. Truly a man of many talents, Meade was a role model for many except for the demerits he got for lack of shine on the brass buttons on his West Point uniform.