September 21, 2024
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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March 21, 2021 5 Comments
James Garfield’s term in office was a short 199 days. Presidential historians debate what could have been if an assassin’s bullet had not ended what was expected to be a bright future led by the new president from Ohio. Garfield’s home, Lawnfield tells part of his story.