April 24, 2024
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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October 30, 2022 2 Comments
From the first book ever written that we know of – The Epic of Gilgamesh to the latest graphic-novel such as The White Bird, books have been indispensable parts of every life lived on earth. Sadly, the world may be on the brink of no longer needing, wanting, or treasuring books. What’s left if books and libraries disappear?