April 30, 2026
Tag: prison 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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August 18, 2021 1 Comment
Our resident contributor from the homeland of Dr. David Livingstone has found a postcard that generated new interests in the London Missionary Society and the work of a martyr and his title character.