January 15, 2025
Tag: Mutual Welfare League
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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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October 3, 2024 2 Comments
The summary-narrative of a recently published survey by a Danish university professor hits pretty close to home. It’s about “truth” and sadly the survey says, in the world today, that commodity is becoming a rare one.