Sing Sing Correctional Facility is an active, maximum-security prison where the theories and realities of criminal punishment and rehabilitation have played out for almost 200 years. It’s a place with diverse stories from multiple perspectives.
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What We're ReadingFrom home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. Their experiences in the connected programs between “El Valle” Juvenile Detention Center and “Legacy” Community School reveal the accelerated fusion of California schools and institutions of confinement. The girls participate in well-intentioned wraparound services designed to provide them with support at home, at school, and in the detention center. But these services may more closely resemble the phenomenon of wraparound incarceration, in which students, despite leaving the actual detention center, cannot escape the surveillance of formal detention, and are thereby slowly pushed away from traditional schooling and a productive life course.
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What We're Watching"A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country" takes a look at the growth of prisons in the Adirondacks from the 1840s through the 1990s. Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake recently held a great program about this compelling part of New York history.
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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Sing Sing Prison Wins Challenge Grant
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Baseball at Sing Sing Prison
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