April 18, 2024
Tag: Thomas Mott Osborne
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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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April 7, 2024 2 Comments
William Penn was rumored to be a gentleman who learned the craft of diplomacy from his father. William came to the colonies to found a provence called Pennsylvania. He did. They made a statue of him. They put it on display. The people loved it, but there have been arguments ever since.