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Sing Sing : the inside story of a notorious prison / Denis Brian.
Van Pelt Library HV9475.N72 S562 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brian, Denis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sing Sing Prison--History.
- Sing Sing Prison.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- Based on extensive research with original sources, Brian's narrative covers every period of the prison's checkered history, from the awful conditions of the 19th century to the relative improvements of the 20th century to today.
- Contents:
- Riding the tiger, 1821-1839
- Another reign of terror, 1840-1859
- Abraham Lincoln passes through, 1860-1887
- Thomas Edison promotes his rival's electric chair, 1887-1904
- The convict who trapped himself, and the great river disaster, 1904-1914
- Warden Osborne
- the voluntary prisoner, 1913-1920
- Warden Lawes and the rose man of Sing Sing, 1920-1929
- Murder incorporated and the movies, 1930-1949
- The Lonely Hearts Killers and the Rosenbergs, 1950
- 1982
- Riots and reforms, 1980s and 1990s
- Recovering the prison's missing archives
- Sing Sing in the twenty-first century
- Afterword: Sing Sing today and tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1591023572
- OCLC:
- 61130715
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