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  • Stone on Stone App
  • Why a Museum?
    • Project Summary
    • Sing Sing Today
    • The 1825 Cellblock
    • The Powerhouse
  • History of Sing Sing Prison
    • Quick Facts
    • Historic Significance
    • The Mutual Welfare League
    • Working at Sing Sing
  • Programs and Events
    • Poetry of Returning Citizens
    • What We're Reading
    • Justice Talks
    • Community Conversations
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Associated Press
"A museum just beyond the maximum-security prison’s watch towers is being planned with a unique feature: a 300-foot-long (91 meters) corridor connecting to the roofless ruins of the original 19th century cell block inside the walls. Museum-goers would stand at the site of the first cramped cells at this prison “up the river” from New York City and learn about life in the Big House."
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WNYW Fox 5 NY
Interim Director Brent D. Glass sits down with Fox 5 NY to talk about the future of the Sing Sing Prison Museum and an update on what's happening now. On site interviews with Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Executive Director Sean Pica, and a gardening initiative led by Douglas DeCandia.
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WNYW Fox 5 NY
​The Sing Sing Prison Museum and Bethany Arts Community proudly presented the East Coast premiere of The Wait Room, an outdoor dance program created by Flyaway Productions of San Francisco to honor the lives of women whose loved ones are incarcerated.
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RNN
Sing Sing is one of the most famous prisons in the country. The terms "big house," and "up the river" were both coined at the maximum-security prison in Ossining. Now there's a plan to capitalize on that fame, and the prison's incredible history, to build a museum there. Historic Hudson River Towns is working with the New York State Department of corrections and Ossining to do just that.

New York's Fox5 News
Special thanks to Dana White, Ossining Village Historian and Jerry Faiella, Historic Hudson River Towns!​​Check out the great piece New York's Fox5 News did on the Sing Sing Prison Museum! Special thanks to Dana White, Ossining Village Historian and Jerry Faiella, Historic Hudson River Towns!​
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Sing Sing Prison Acquires a New Story
​The Inside Press

Written by Jennifer Sabin Poux - December 2019
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In 1929, the New York Yankees played an exhibition game in an unusual location. It wasn’t a major league stadium or even a famous park. And Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and their teammates weren’t playing a team known for its athletic prowess...Read More

Where Doing Time Means Using It
​WAG Magazine

Written by Georgette Gouveia - December 2019
​We often speak of being incarcerated as “doing time.” But the subject of prisons and prison reform is also both timely and timeless...Read More

Outside Prison Walls: Waiting, Spinning, Flying
The New York Times

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Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
Written by Brian Seibert - 19 September 2019
In a park next to Sing Sing, an aerial dance performance focuses on the experiences of women with jailed loved ones...Read More

Dance Project Sheds Light on Loved Ones of Incarcerated Inmates
​Westchester County Business Journal

Written by Jennifer Berry - September 2019
Yet to open, but already carving out a space at the intersection of civic engagement and culture, the Sing Sing Prison Museum will present a provocative dance performance that raises questions about justice and injustice...Read More

Sing Sing Museum: New View of the 'Big House'
USA Today Network

Written by Douglas P. Clement - 15 April 2016
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OSSINING –  A proposed Sing Sing prison museum has a long, colorful past to mine.​
It was here that “Old Sparky," the first electric chair, was used. It was here where baseball great Babe Ruth supposedly blasted his longest home run during an exhibition game against a team of inmates ...Read More

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Where Berkowitz Did Time and
Cagney Spent Time
The New York Times

Written by Douglas P. Clement - 15 April 2016
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There’s something magical about Sing Sing, the maximum-security prison that sprawls over 75 acres on a bank of the Hudson River where it widens north of the Tappan Zee Bridge — if the word magical can be used to describe a place that in the late 19th century pioneered the use of the electric chair and that today houses about 1,600 inmates, many of ...Read More

Proposed Sing Sing Prison
Museum Moving Forward
River Journal

Written by Nancy Gold - 25 March 2016
Historic Hudson River Towns, the lead agency on the development of a prison museum and educational center at Sing Sing Correctional Facility here, announced today that the project is moving forward with the hiring of three prominent museum consulting firms.
Public historian Brent D. Glass, director emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, has been serving as consulting advisor ...Read More
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