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. 

​As an emerging voice, our goal is to deliver new ways of understanding for a ​fairer future.

Sing Sing Prison Museum is currently under development and is not yet open to the public.​

What We're Reading

From 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.

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.

By the Numbers
Find out more about our potential economic impact

2021 Year in Review
It's been quite the year!
Here's what we are proud of

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Sing Sing Prison Museum Institutional Values and Statement

Finding Your Ancestor
How to find family history at Sing Sing Prison

Babe Ruth Returns to
​Sing Sing
A recent acquisition with a great story

The Historic Significance of
​Sing Sing Prison
The story at the center of punishment in the
​United States

Sing Sing Prison Wins Challenge Grant
​The Museum is required to raise $1.1 million dollars to match NEH funding

The 1825 Cellblock
A historic structure that once defined mass incarceration

The Powerhouse
Learn more about the site of our future home

How did Sing Sing Prison react to the Spanish Flu?
“The prison was placed in quarantine. Men in the brush shop were compelled to wear masks, which were sterilized every day. All the men in every department of the prison were ordered to report at the hospital if in any way subject to physical disturbance."

Baseball at Sing Sing Prison
How sports were part of rehabilitation

Now Available to Download
An app experience brings the historic Cellblock to life! 

Justice Talks
Our webinar discussion series invites you to imagine a more just society with contemporary topics in criminal justice. 

The Sing Sing Correctional Facility of Today
Sing Sing is considered a model with innovative rehabilitation programs for the incarcerated
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