June 24, 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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July 22, 2021 1 Comment
C – R – I – C – K – E – T. From the Middle English word criket, that defines any of a family of jumping insects, or the Middle French word criquet which is a game played with a bat and ball. Postcards from Here or There explain the differences.