October 9, 2026
Tag: sing sing
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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
February 4, 2025 2 Comments
It’s a universal problem. Any idea that becomes a project, from concept to the period at the end of the last paragraph in the review, everything takes twice the amount of time originally allotted. This three-year idea took nearly 30 years.