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	Sing Sing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a prison in Ossining, New York.
		However, even in its darkest days, conditions at Sing Sing were never as bad as in southern penitentiaries such as Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) in Mississippi or the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
		Sing Sing is where one is going when one is "going up the river", as the prison is upriver from New York City.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sing_Sing_(prison) (461 words)

	Sing Sing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in Ossining, New York.
		One of Sing Sing's hallmarks was its effective use of prison labor.
		Aside from building the prison itself, prisoners were also used in the stone quarry where they produced a popular product of the time known as Sing Sing marble.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sing_Sing_(prison) (929 words)

	History of Sing Sing CF - "Sent up the river" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Our romanticized prison stereotypes - of grim, stripe-suited convicts marching in silent lockstep, of the death house and the electric chair, of daring escapes, of fear, and of ingenuity in defiance of overbearing authority -- are all the stuff of the legend of Sing Sing.
		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.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Downs/3548/facility/singsing.html (2888 words)

	Sing Sing Museum, Ossining, New York
		Sing Sing alumni occasionally visit the museum with their families to reminisce about life in the Big House.
		Two Sing Sing cells are on display, in all their gray and army barracks green glory.
		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.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/NYOSSsing.html (770 words)

	The History of Sing Sing Prison -- by the Half Moon Press
		The municipalities of Sing Sing changed their name to Ossining in 1901, when goods from local manufacturers were boycotted because of the "Sing Sing" connection.
		Overseers of Sing Sing early in the first half of the 1900s, watched the construction of new cellblocks, a new chapel, an administration building, segregation building, storehouse, mess hall bath house and barber shop.
		Sing Sing became a popular movie backdrop during the 1930s and 40s, especially by James Cagney, and was used for a remake of "Kiss of Death" and "Bullet" in 1995.
	www.hudsonriver.com /halfmoonpress/stories/0500sing.htm (1343 words)

	Officials propose museum at Sing Sing prison - at worldbookers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		One of the few inmates who escaped the prison was Willie Sutton, the bank robber best known for saying he targeted banks "because that's where the money is." Sutton was on the lam for four years after using a makeshift ladder to scale a 25-foot wall in 1932.
		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.
	www.worldbookers.com /news/news_officials_propose_museum_463.html (382 words)

	Sing Sing Captured in Pictures -- by the Half Moon Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One hundred convicts were brought by Warden Elam Lynds on barges from Auburn prison, and by 1826, 60 of the proposed 800 cells had been built out of the hand-hewn stone from an on-site quarry.
		The use of the cat-o'-nine to flog the prisoners was eliminated in 1848, but it took a riot in 1869 to prohibit the use of the cold-water shower.
		Earlier prisoners were able to express some creativity by hand-painting scenes on the horse-drawn wagons and sleds manufactured at the prison.
	www.hudsonriver.com /halfmoonpress/stories/1103sing.htm (455 words)

	All about Sing Sing Prison, by Mark Gado - The Crime library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ominous walls of the original Sing Sing Prison constructed in 1825 by inmates from Auburn prison.
		Prison reformers felt that inmates had to be isolated from the rest of society.
		One penologist of the era said that this separation from society had to be so complete, that a prisoner had "to be literally buried from the world!" This philosophy needed to be reflected in the architecture of the institution as well.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/sing_sing (868 words)

	Westchester
		Saying Sing Sing prison could become the Alcatraz of the east, Westchester County Executive Andy Spano today called on the state’s Empire State Development Corporation to fund construction of a prison museum that he thinks would be a major tourist attraction for the northeast.
		He said the internationally infamous prison, which was the site of the nation’s first electric chair and a favorite subject of Hollywood in the ‘20s and ‘30s, was ideally located on the river where ferry boats could deliver visitors.
		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.
	www.westchestergov.com /currentnews/2005pr/SingSing.htm (657 words)

	NYCHS: Guy Cheli's 'Sing Sing Prison' Early Prison Life Page
		In 1901, the village of Sing Sing changed its name to Ossining because local merchants did not want their goods associated with merchandise from the nearby prison of the same name.
		In 1900, the long-held practice of the lockstep, which involved marching the prisoners while they were shackled together at the ankles, was abolished.
		This was a self-governed organization among prisoners that consisted of an executive board, several delegates, and a court with seven judges.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/state/singsing/html/earlylife.html (824 words)

	Views from Sing Sing Newjack - Correctional Compass - Summer 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Here is a look at a view from Sing Sing prison in New York state.
		Many mornings as I returned to Sing Sing - leaving home at the gate, in this direction - I asked myself the same question, "Could I make it until the end of the year?" Most often (though not always) the answer was yes.
		It is quite a culture shock in being introduced to the values (or lack thereof), attitudes, behavior and lifestyles that a cross-section of a prison population represents.
	www.dc.state.fl.us /pub/compass/02summer/7.html (621 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375501770?v=glance (3446 words)

	SING SING PRISON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They erected it by a quarry on Mt. Pleasant, near the Hudson River town of Sing Sing, named after the Sint Sinck (means "stone on stone") Native Americans.
		Sing Sing no longer resembles the prison constructed by Captain Elam Lynds and the Auburn inmates in 1825.
		An economic study prepared in 2002 indicated a prison museum would bring between 100,000 to 210,000 visitors to the area and generate $20 million annually to Westchester County.
	www.bedofnailz.com /singsing.html (548 words)

	TalkLeft: Sing Sing Officials Ordered to Pay $7.65 Million to Inmate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Sing Sing prison inmate who was slashed by another inmate and almost died after cooperating with prosecutors against a gang member has been awarded $7.65 million in damages.
		A jury has awarded a former Sing Sing prison inmate a $7.65 million judgment against high-ranking corrections officials, saying they did not heed his pleas for protection after cooperating with prosecutors against a gang leader.
		The inmate was slashed by another prisoner and nearly bled to death at Sing Sing in 1998, according to his lawyer.
	www.talkleft.com /new_archives/006442.html (366 words)

	No. 1034: Sing Sing Prison
		When I was a child, Sing Sing meant prison the way Gillette meant razor blade.
		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.
		What I find most poignant about Sing Sing's long history is that it brings back a time when we honestly wrestled with that question.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1034.htm (506 words)

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		Local officials are asking the state's help in funding the start-up of a museum in the prison's old power house, which would be connected by tunnel to an original cell block no longer in use, said Westchester County Planning Commissioner Jerry Mulligan on Monday.
		Studies show a museum at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility could lure 150,000 visitors a year, he said, at a start-up cost of about $5 million (2.6 million pounds).
		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.
	www.travelwirenews.com /cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000027/002701.htm (311 words)

	Sing Sing Prison as Tourist Attraction?? - Cyburbia Forums
		Sing Sing is still a high security prison but the debate exists as to whether it is a major untapped tourist attraction.
		Little background...Sing Sing is located in Ossining on the Hudson River in Westchester County...one of the most affluent counties in the USA.
		Most of the people in prison in the state are there for drug offences, but the Rockefeller era drug laws will never change because prisons are economic generators for some upstate and up north counties.
	www.cyburbia.org /forums/showthread.php?p=158316#post158316 (1581 words)

	Literal Mind. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Ted Conover
		I thought Ted Conover's "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" is one of the finest pieces of literary journalism ever to be written.
		The result was "Newjack," a title that came from the phrase for new prison guards.
		It forces me to think of prison guards I know who will never be the same because of their low-paying, sometimes brutal work; of prisoners who get out of jail in worse shape than when they went in; of a society that conveniently hides and distorts the realities behind bars.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=74 (526 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.
		Newjack (prison slang for a rookie guard) was published in 2000 and won the National Book Critics Circle award.
		Conover, a journalist who has written three previous books, worked at Sing Sing for eight months without saying he was writing a book.
	www.tedconover.com /SingSingBookClub.html (350 words)

	All about Martha Beck, by Mark Gado
		Martha and Raymond’s stay on Death Row in Sing Sing prison had to be one of the most tumultuous events in that prison’s history.
		Although executions were still a reality at Sing Sing, the number of executions had diminished greatly in the previous few years.
		Prison officials were unusually accommodating to the media.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/partners/fernandez/13.html (1647 words)

	Maria Barbella
		On that day, she appeared wearing a dress she had made while in prison, and a dark gray felt hat trimmed with orange flowers and feathers.
		On July 18, 1895, Judge Goff sentenced her to death--"execution by electricity." Maria was transferred to Sing Sing Prison, the first female convict held there in 18 years and the first one on death row.
		On April 16, 1896, the Court of appeals granted Maria a retrial on the basis of omitted testimony during her first trial and the lack of Judge Goff's impartiality.
	nvnv.essortment.com /mariabarbella_rluk.htm (1084 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sing Sing officer killed inmate's kittens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A Sing Sing prison officer who allegedly killed five kittens in a trash compactor has been charged with cruelty to animals.
		Midnight, found by other prison officials during an investigation, was being cared for at a shelter in Manhattan.
		Hunlock, who has worked at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., for five years, was arrested Thursday and was to be suspended from his job without pay.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/03/2001-03-30-crushed-kittens.htm (227 words)

	ABC News: Officials Propose Sing Sing Prison Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An empty electric chair is shown in the Death House at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y., in this May 17, 1968 file photo.
		If Westchester County has its way, tourists will be invited to take a trip up the Hudson River to a new museum at Sing Sing, the 136-year-old prision where the Rosenbergs were electrocuted and Willie Sutton scaled the walls.
		WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Jan 3, 2005 — Westchester County is hoping to bring tourists "up the river" to a new museum at Sing Sing, the 176-year-old prison where the Rosenbergs were electrocuted and Willie Sutton scaled the walls.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=380840 (466 words)

	Classified Information Spring 2004
		The Lawes Papers have been consulted by scholars researching the life and work of Lewis Lawes who was Warden of Sing Sing Prison.
		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.
		He has invited the John Jay College community to attend his presentation The Jews of Sing Sing on November 21st at 2:00 P.M. at the New York Jewish Genealogical Society at the Center for Jewish History (located at 16 West 15th Street).
	www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu /newsletter/fall2004/page1.html (553 words)

	NYCHS: Guy Cheli's 'Sing Sing Prison' Building the Prison Page
		As time went by, however, the big city at the mouth of the Hudson River had to grapple with the problem of what to do with its prisons and a mounting number of convicted criminals.
		In this sympathetic study, the author traces the history of America's mythic prison - thanks to Hollywood, the most famous prison in the world.
		From the time when prisoners were marched in lockstep from their tiny cells to the Spring Street Quarry to labor all day in all weather for pennies, the state has taken a quantum leap to the prison's present incarnation as the Ossining Correctional Facility.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/state/singsing/html/intro.html (315 words)

	Powell's Books - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEWJACK: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing.
		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.
		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.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=1567407382 (342 words)

	All about Sing Sing Prison, by Mark Gado - The Crime library
		Sing Sing's first executioner was a man named Edwin Davis.
		His most prolific day was August 12, 1912, when he executed seven men in less than one hour at Sing Sing.
		The prison doctor later revived him and the executions went forward.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/sing_sing/5.html?sect%3D7 (1067 words)

	B.B. King and Joan Baez - Sing, Sing Prison 1972 : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		SING SING THANKSGIVING shows one of the greatest concert events ever captured on film.
		On a Thanksgiving day back in 1974, BB King and his full band and Joan Baez and her sister, the late Mimi Farina, spent the day with the inmates of New York’s maximum security prison, Sing Sing.
		SING SING THANKSGIVING won top awards at film festivals around the world, including New York, Chicago and London.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B0000AKMZQ.html (278 words)

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