August 25, 2026
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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June 6, 2024 3 Comments
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the D-Day invasion, he said, “They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.” He was talking about men like A. J. “Tony” Chapman, who dedicated his life to teaching the world what an important day it was.