March 21, 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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December 25, 2022 4 Comments
Each day on the calendar – as of this year – has happened two thousand and twenty-two times. (Except, of course, February 29th.) All things considered, it is a good bet that some special “noteworthy” event has happened on every day. Postcards help us celebrate the events of December 25th.