As a way of wishing to all the blessings
of this holy and holiday season, I have written for our NYCHS web site a
correction history Christmas story entitled "Sing Sing Convicts, Their
'Little Mother,' and Her Sidewalk Santas." It's my vehicle
for saying Merry Christmas and Happy New York.
In researching another presentation (also just
added - "Revisiting Deadly 1941 Sing Sing Escape"), I found
unrelated but to me fascinating information about an event that took
place at Sing Sing on Christmas Eve 109 years ago and that still
echoes on the sidewalks of New York this season each
year.
So I followed up on the "up the river" Yule history
after I posted on our site the 7-page presentation about the bloody
prison breakout.
The URL for "Revisiting Deadly 1941 Sing Sing
Escape" is:
Although the breakout happened six and a half decades
ago, the story elements involved are as fresh as
today's headlines: prisoners escaped, officers killed, captured and
convicted escapees executed, accomplices' convictions overturned
after courts ruled more than a decade and a half later that
the 'confessions' were extracted by "torture."
Both presentations can be accessed via
the New York Correction History Society home page at
and from our site's Sing Sing history menu
page at
Tom McCarthy
NY Correction History
Society
general
secretary/webmaster