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Fifty years in Sing Sing : a personal account, 1879-1929 / Alfred Conyes ; edited by Penelope Kay Jarrett ; foreword by Ted Conover.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conyes, Alfred, 1852- author.
- Conover, Ted, author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conyes, Alfred, 1852-.
- Conyes, Alfred.
- Sing Sing Prison--History.
- Sing Sing Prison.
- Correctional personnel--New York (State)--Biography.
- Correctional personnel.
- Prisoners--New York (State)--History.
- Prisoners.
- Corrections--New York (State)--History.
- Corrections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A fascinating personal account of life at this infamous prison during a bygone era.Written more than eighty years ago, Fifty Years in Sing Sing is the personal account of Alfred Conyes (1852–1931), who worked as a prison guard and then keeper at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, from 1879 to 1929. This unpublished memoir, dated 1930, was found among his granddaughter's estate by his great-granddaughter Penelope Kay Jarrett. Near the end of his life, Conyes told his story to family member Alfred Van Buren Jr., relating, in detail, harrowing and humorous accounts of what prison life was like from his perspective and how prison conditions changed over the course of a half century. The book covers prison hardship, cruel punishments deemed appropriate at the time, daring and clever escapes, the advent of death by electricity, Prohibition, doughboys, and prison reform.
- Contents:
- ""Contents ""; ""List of Illustrations ""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments and Editorial Note ""; ""Note ""; ""Foreword to the Original Manuscript by Lewis Lawes ""; ""Prelude ""; ""Destiny Carved in Stone ""; ""Clinton Prison: An Inside Portrait ""; ""Sing Sing Prison�Now and Then ""; ""Lost Souls Sewing on Soles ""; ""To Be Put to Death ""; ""Holding the Line ""; ""The High Cost of Freedom: Leaving Sing Sing, Leaving This Earth ""; ""A Promise to Be Kept ""; ""A Narrow Escape, Suicide, and Tragedy ""; ""Do Good and Make Good ""; ""Better Alive Than Dead ""
- ""You Killed an Innocent Man """"Editor�s note""; ""Notes ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438454245
- 1438454244
- OCLC:
- 1058686649
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