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State Prison at Sing Sing, New York, an 1855 engraving. Sing Sing was the fifth prison constructed by New York state authorities. In 1824, the New York Legislature gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former United States Army captain, the task of constructing a new, more modern prison.
Sing Sing Museum or the Sing Sing Prison Museum is a proposed museum in the original power house at the northern end of Sing Sing prison in New York state. [1] The museum will tell the story of incarceration in America and Sing Sing's part of that story. [ 2 ]
This is a list of state prisons in New York. The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is the department of the New York State government that maintains the state prisons and parole system. [1] There are 42 prisons funded by the State of New York, and approximately 28,200 parolees at seven regional offices as of ...
The Wardens of Sing Sing are appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. [1] Elam Lynds (1825–1830) Robert Wiltse (1830–1840) David L. Seymour (1840–1843) William H. Peck (warden) (1843–1845) Hiram P. Rowell (1845–1848) Chauncey Smith (1848–1849) Edward L. Potter (January, 1849) Alfred R ...
The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison called Newgate located in New York City. A second state prison opened 20 years later in Auburn in 1817, and in 1825 a group of Auburn prisoners made the voyage across the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to begin building Sing Sing in the village of Ossining ...
Captain Elam Lynds (1784–1855) was a prison warden and was known for his carceral innovations, such as producing goods for sale outside of prisons for profit, instituting absolute silence among prisoners at all times, and solitary confinement of prisoners at night, and for his cruelty as a warden. [1]
People who were imprisoned in Sing Sing, located in the village of Ossining, New York Pages in category "Inmates of Sing Sing" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
An 1855 engraving of New York's Sing Sing Penitentiary, which also followed the Auburn System. The Auburn system (also known as the New York system and Congregate system) is a penal method of the 19th century in which prisoners worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times.