June 13, 2026
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…
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February 20, 2022 4 Comments
Finding unidentified real photo postcards is among our hobby’s most perplexing problems. How often have you heard it said, “I wish they would have written names (or dates, or places … or anything) on the backs of these cards!” This story is about some cards that had names on them, but each was in Greek.