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History of Sing Sing CF - "Sent up the river"

She left in 1848, a symbol of the defeat of Sing Sing's first stab at humane treatment of its prisoners.
A riot at Sing Sing which started January 8, 1983, resulted in a new chapter in the prison's storied history.
Sing Sing's Inspectors, reporting that five children were born in the prison, said "there is nothing to do under the law but to leave them there for long terms with their mothers.

http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/3548/facility/singsing.html



How To Sing in TutorGig Encyclopedia

Alternative meaning Sing Sing band Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a prison in Ossining village, New..., even in its darkest days, conditions at Sing Sing were never as bad as in southern penitentiaries..
Sing Loud, Sing Proud is the third studio album from Boston punk rockers, the Dropkick Murphys.
A Sing You Sinners song song, by Sam Coslow and W. Frank Harling, recorded by Tony..

http://www.tutorgig.com/es/How+To+Sing



Punk As CD Reviews: The Distillers Sing Sing Death House

Sing Sing Death House may be named after a prison, but feels more like a statement of intent.
Sing Sing Death House is the second Distillers album, in the wake of their self-titled debut in YEAR.
The reasons are clear - a polished sound (but not so polished as to dilute the passion of the playing and singing), solid chorus hooks, strong contacts and the current poster girl of international punk rock, Brodie Armstrong front and centre.

http://www.punkas.com/singsingdeathhouse.html



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Revived by Sing Sing's doctor, Hulbert finished the job, then spent a week in the prison hospital.
During the years of Hover's tenure, 44 people died in Sing Sing's death house, ranging from nine in 1954 to zero in 1962.
I have been advised by Sing Sing that you have rendered a service in previous executions.

http://abolishmentmovement.mywowbb.com/forum14/840.html



Sing Sing - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Sing Sing

The prison for the State at Sing Sing is, on the other hand, a model jail.
Sing Sing - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Sing Sing
Sing Sing: see Ossining Ossining (ŏs`ənĭng), village (1990 pop.

http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Sing+Sing (126 words)



Social Distortion - Prison Bound Review - sputnikmusic

I think we can see how much is vocal are great in the song Prison Bound, is voice match perfectly with the song and you can notice a lot of emotions while he sing.
Prison Bound was released in 1988, it was the second album by the Orange County band Social Distortion.
Prison Bound has to be one of my favorite songs ever.

http://musicianforums.com/sputnik/album.php?reviewid=3237&...&styleid=18 (1240 words)



Folsom Prison Blues - MyFolsom.Com

In 1968, Cash visited Folsom Prison to sing and record a concert, captured on this album.
Perhaps the most famous of Folsom's residents has been legendary singer, Johnny Cash...
In 1969, The "man in black" recorded a concert at Folsom Prison, and was captured in time with his "Live at Folsom Prison" album.

http://www.myfolsom.com/folsomprisonblues.shtml (207 words)



Folsom Prison Blues - MyFolsom.Com

In 1968, Cash visited Folsom Prison to sing and record a concert, captured on this album.
In 1969, The "man in black" recorded a concert at Folsom Prison, and was captured in time with his "Live at Folsom Prison" album.
"Folsom Prison Blues" originally was recorded on his 1956 "I Walk the Line" album.

http://www.myfolsom.com/folsomprisonblues.shtml (207 words)



Tennessee Guerilla Women: Cheney Got a Gun & Folsom Prison Blues

Listen to Cheney sing at Folsom State Prison.
Cheney VP Shoots Man Dick Cheney Harry Whittington Audio Cheney Got a Gun Folsom State Prison
And, Dickie and The Trigger Happy Birdie Killers play a one hour set at California's maximum security Folsom State Prison.

http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2006/02/cheney-got-gun-folsom-prison-blues.html (205 words)



Country Music

Sings I Walk The Line/Sings Folsom Prison Blues
I Heard The Bluebirds Sing/A Harvest Of Country
Folsom Prison Blues/I'm A Long Way From Home

http://www.x4x.biz/music/genres/country-35.html (191 words)



Powell's Books - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

An investigative journalist tells the story of his rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing prison, the culture of its guards, the prison rituals and history, and Sing Sing's present status as New York State's "bottom of the barrel" prison.
Along the way, Conover also recounts the history of Sing Sing, from draconian early punishment, to fame as the citadel of capital punishment, to its present status as New York State's bottom of the barrel prison.
NEWJACK: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing.

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=1567407382 (342 words)



Robert L. Gold on his 'Searching Sing Sing For My Father'--web page 5

No record of my father’s life and times in Sing Sing existed; there was not one bit of evidence indicating he had ever been in the prison.
Ossining Historical Society Museum at 196 Croton Ave., founded in 1931, is devoted to the history of Ossining and vicinity, including Sing Sing Prison.
From the Sing Sing staff, I was disappointed to discover that the inmate case files for much of the early twentieth century had been consumed in a 1984 fire that burned the old cell block, where they were stored along with flammable paint supplies.

http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/state/singsing/sonsearching/html/gold05.html (1930 words)



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SING SING NEW YORK View of Prison Hudson River 1887
Sing Sing New York Prison Decal orig Glassine Envelope
SING SING PRISON - Hudson River - Stereoview - 1870's

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GUARD RECALLS HIS LIFE AT SING SING

Sing Sing, named after the Sint Sinck Indians, was popularized by movies such as ``The Big House'' with James Cagney and the classic ``20,000 Years in Sing Sing'' starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis that depicted the dank despair of prison life.
In his quarter of a century patrolling the catwalks at Sing Sing, Dixon endured four attempts on his life, several riots, saw countless men assaulted and raped and witnessed the execution of a mass murderer.
Hopefully, by reading about his experiences, people will see that life at a place like Sing Sing, regardless of what side of the bars they are on, is one that they never escape, he says.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950906/09060047.htm (1127 words)



Sing Sing Book Club

Newjack, Ted Conover's tale of like as a rookie prison guard, was required reading for a group of prisoners planning to escape Sing Sing.
Last week, New York police arrested seven people, including two inmates and a guard, at Sing Sing state prison and accused them of planning an elaborate escape.
Conover, a journalist who has written three previous books, worked at Sing Sing for eight months without saying he was writing a book.

http://www.tedconover.com/SingSingBookClub.html (350 words)



Classified Information Spring 2004

These topics included the Black Sheep prison football team, visits to the prison by Babe Ruth and Harry Houdini, and social programs for prisoners at Sing Sing.
The Lawes Papers have been consulted by scholars researching the life and work of Lewis Lawes who was Warden of Sing Sing Prison.
Blumenthal, R. Miracle at Sing Sing: How one man transformed the lives of America s most dangerous prisoners.

http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/newsletter/fall2004/page1.html (553 words)



Westchester

Saying Sing Sing prison could become the Alcatraz of the east, Westchester County Executive Andy Spano today called on the states Empire State Development Corporation to fund construction of a prison museum that he thinks would be a major tourist attraction for the northeast.
Spano said that the Sing Sing proposal was in response to a recent news article in which Gov. George Pataki and Gargano are quoted as saying that the state is looking for new and exciting economic development/tourism opportunities.
In a letter to Charles A. Gargano, chairman of the agency that promotes tourism and economic development in the state, Spano said that Sing Sing could be the perfect catalyst for the Hudson Valley tourism industry, attracting tourists from all over the world.

http://www.westchestergov.com/currentnews/2005pr/SingSing.htm (657 words)



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Turning the prison into a tourist attraction would be a marked change from days when the town changed its name to Ossining from Sing Sing to distance itself from the prison, and local officials frowned on its public mention.
Inside, the massive stone walls and dim halls made Sing Sing a popular setting for prison movies, including "Angels with Dirty Faces" with James Cagney in 1938.
The dark, imposing prison, which today holds about 1,745 inmates, overlooks the Hudson River in Ossining, N.Y., about 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City.

http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000027/002701.htm (311 words)



History of Sing Sing CF - "Sent up the river"

Sing Sing's Inspectors, reporting that five children were born in the prison, said "there is nothing to do under the law but to leave them there for long terms with their mothers.
In 1989, Sing Sing became the 14th prison in the Department to receive accreditation and the first of the older maximum-security prisons in the State to receive such a designation.
The "Auburn System" in effect at Sing Sing was founded on the notion that perpetual silence in a Spartan "no-frills" penitentiary would cause the inmate to regret his wrongdoings and assist in his rehabilitation it was also thought to yield a perfect discipline and order.

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/3548/facility/singsing.html (2888 words)



20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

Trivia: Writer Lewis E. Lawes was still warden of Sing Sing prison during filming and allowed the crew to film inside and outside the prison, including mob scenes.
Plot Summary: Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole...
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023731 (183 words)



No. 1034: Sing Sing Prison

When I was a child, Sing Sing meant prison the way Gillette meant razor blade.
He dedicated it to "those tens of thousands of my former wards who have justified my faith in human nature." Among the famous prisons-- Alcatraz, Leavenworth, Attica-- Sing Sing is the oldest and most deeply woven into our fabric.
In 1901, three years after Edison introduced the electric chair at Sing Sing, the town changed its name to Ossining so people wouldn't confuse it with the jail.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1034.htm (506 words)



Moviefone: Sing Sing Thanksgiving Movie

Synopsis: This music documentary records a concert given on November 23, 1972, at Sing Sing prison in upstate New York.
Amazon.com: BB King and Joan Baez - Sing, Sing Prison 1972 (1972...
SING SING THANKSGIVING won top awards at film festivals around the world, including New...

http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=1103059 (275 words)



Amazon.com: Books: Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing

The author readily admits that Sing Sing is an atypical prison, with a larger percentage of minority guards and unseasoned officers than the upstate facilities; it would have been interesting if he'd been willing or able to spend longer in the system and get a better look at those institutions.
Stymied by both the union and prison brass in his effort to report on correctional officers, Conover instead applied for a job, and spent nearly a year in the system, mostly at Sing Sing, the storied prison in the New York City suburbs.
By the end of his time guarding Sing Sing, he seems convinced that the latter is often the case, that warehousing people can end up dehumanizing both the people being warehoused and the people doing the warehousing.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375501770?v=glance (3446 words)



Sing Sing Museum, Ossining, New York

Confiscated prison weapons adorn a wall plaque, some still in their evidence bags, offering proof that Sing Sing's current population is as handy and resourceful as their marble-quarrying predecessors.
The prison's still there, providing long-term housing for 2,200 tenants who don't look kindly on tourists.
Sing Sing alumni occasionally visit the museum with their families to reminisce about life in the Big House.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NYOSSsing.html (770 words)



ABC News: Officials Propose Sing Sing Prison Museum

In a letter to corporation Chairman Charles Gargano, Spano said the Sing Sing museum "would rival the popularity of Alcatraz," the federal prison island turned national park in San Francisco Bay that attracts 1.3 million visitors a year.
It took the name Sing Sing from the village it was in, but the village soon changed its name to Ossining to avoid the association.
The execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the electric chair at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953, ended one of the most sensational cases of the McCarthy era.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=380840 (465 words)



NYCHS excerpts: Mark Gado's 'Stone Upon Stone: Sing Sing Prison'

The oldest prisoner executed at Sing Sing was Albert Fish, 66, a demonic child killer and cannibal who murdered 11-year-old Grace Budd in the City of Peekskill in 1928.
NYCHS is honored to be permitted to post this excerpts presentation of Mark Gado's Stone Upon Stone: Sing Sing Prison appearing on Court TV's Crime Library web site that retains all rights under its copyright.
Found guilty of espionage and sentenced to death in 1951, Sing Sing was given the responsibility of their execution.

http://www.correctionhistory.org/auburn&osborne/bighouse4.htm (1121 words)



LEWIS LAWES - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/19/1940

State of New York, Department of Correction, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, 1940 December 19.
LEWIS E. Warden at Sing Sing has no photograph available.
In full: "I am in receipt of your letter of recent date, and am sorry that I am unable to send you an autographed photograph inasmuch as I have none available." Lewis E. Lawes was Warden at Sing Sing from 1920-1941.

http://www.galleryofhistory.com/archive/3_2001/law/LEWIS_LAWES.htm (1121 words)



OSSINING - LoveToKnow Article on OSSINING

At Ossining, near the river front, is the Sing Sing Prison, the best-known penitentiary in the United States.
In 1906 a law was enacted providing for a new prison in the eastern part of the state in place of Sing Sing.
The village was incorporated in 1813, and was reincorporated, with enlarged boundaries and a considerably increased population, in 1906, the name being changed from Sing Sing to Ossining in 1901.

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/O/OS/OSSINING.htm (226 words)



All about Sing Sing Prison, by Mark Gado - The Crime library

The ominous walls of the original Sing Sing Prison constructed in 1825 by inmates from Auburn prison.
They must not sing, whistle, dance, run, jump, or do anything that has a tendency in the least degree to disturb the harmony...or regulations of the prison," wrote Captain Elam Lynds of New York's Auburn Prison in 1824.
Marble stones cut by 19th century inmates that were part of walls of Sing Sing prison.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/sing_sing (868 words)



New York State Writers Institute - Ted Conover

Ted Conover's new book about the year he spent as a corrections officer at Sing Sing Prison, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000, Random House, ISBN 0-375-50177-0), has been effectively banned at prisons in New York State.
Christianson is a journalist and chronicler of the American prison system and author of the nonfiction books With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America and Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House.
"I wanted to hear the voices one truly never hears," said Conover, "the voices of guards--those on the front lines of our prison policies, the society's proxies." As a journalist, Conover was frustrated in his attempts to investigate the world of corrections from the outside.

http://www.albany.edu/writers.inst/conoverted.html (445 words)