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Sing Sing
(redirected from Sing Sing Prison)

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Sing Sing: see Ossining Ossining (ŏs`ənĭng), village (1990 pop. 22,582), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on the Hudson River; settled c.1750, inc.
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Sing Sing
notoriously harsh state prison at Ossining, New York. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 219]
See : Imprisonment
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Saying Sing Sing prison could become the Alcatraz of the east, Westchester County Executive Andy Spano has 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.
Spano trying to cell new prison museum plan by Real Estate Weekly
Through Sing Sing prison, Bratt also got hold of some unpublished Pinero work that belonged to the poet's mentor, Miguel Martin.
LAYING DOWN A NEW LAW FOR GRITTY 'PINERO,' A HISTORY OF CLEAN-CUT ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Lawes, then warden of New York's Sing Sing prison, wrote in the 1940s, "Because we are at such odds as to the functions of prisons--whether we are to seek retribution or reform--we have never been able to devise a sound, logical, and all-inclusive prison policy" (EncyclopediaAmerica, 1946).
Crimes & punishments: sentences that fit by McCarthy, Abigail / Commonweal
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