December 7, 2025
Tag: up the river
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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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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 9, 1942 War in Europe and the fall of France to German Forces in 1940 resulted in many of the world’s luxury […]