September 20, 2024
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…
Past Article
December 6, 2022 9 Comments
Big cities aren’t for everyone, but it would be hard to imagine the actual state of humanity if we all lived in the woods. Where there are a lot of people, there are a lot of undesirable things: noise, tight-quarters, traffic, unreasonable prices. These are the costs we bare!