December 21, 2024
Tag: penal reform
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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…
Past Article
October 17, 2023 3 Comments
One joy in reading PCH.net is never knowing which educational path Professor Tim will lead us down. This time we learn the history of dictionaries from the definition of one single word. And, when he concludes with a “dictionary” joke, it “Ha, Ha!” to the end.