November 16, 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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September 9, 2025 6 Comments
There is the sad fact that people die in hotel fires. In many different ways authorities have demanded the use of life-saving equipment, but one way to help people escape from a hotel fire never seemed to catch on. Learn about hotel fire ropes.