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Sing Sing : the inside story of a notorious prison / by Brian, Denis.(CARDINAL)150021;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index.Riding the tiger, 1821-1839 -- Another reign of terror, 1840-1859 -- Abraham Lincoln passes through, 1850-1887 -- Thomas Edison promotes his rival's electric chair, 1887-1904 -- The convict who trapped himself the greatest single disaster, 1904-1914 -- Warden Osborne--the voluntary prisoner, 1913-1916 -- Warden Lawes & the rose man of Sing Sing, 1918-1929 -- Murder incorporated and the movies, 1930-1949 -- The Lonely Hearts Killers and the Rosenbergs, 1950--1982 -- Riots and reforms, 1880s and 1990s -- Finding the prison's hidden archive -- Sing Sing in the twenty first century -- Afterword: Sing Sing today & tomorrow.
Subjects: Sing Sing Prison;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Twenty thousand years in Sing Sing / by Lawes, Lewis Edward,1883-1947.(CARDINAL)334489;
Prologue : A broadcast -- Rookie days -- A prison without walls -- My introduction to the Big House -- New trails for old -- A prison day -- The rose man -- Twenty thousand years in Sing Sing -- Men, minds and motives -- Who's afraid of the chair? -- Is there a way? -- Groping -- The great American deterrent."The true inside story of what happens to criminals in the nation's most famous prison, told for the first time by the nation's most famous warden. Humor, pathos, tragedy, adventure, crime, instruction, the death penalty-are all the elements of human interest are illustrated by countless actual incidents in the lives of the men and women who have been under Warden Lawes' care. Crime story addicts, students of penology, readers who love a story for its own sake and readers who want light on one of the America's greatest social problems will find in this book a feast of fresh, tingling material."--Book jacket.Lewis Edward Lawes (September 13, 1883 - April 23, 1947) was a prison warden and a proponent of prison reform. During his 21 year tenure at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, he supervised the executions of 303 prisoners. - Wikipedia. Lawes began his career as a nineteen-year-old prison guard and rose through the ranks to his eventual appointment as governor of Sing Sing. Like his predecessor, Thomas M. Osborne, Lawes was committed to educating the press and the public about the harsh realities of prison life and programs that could successfully rehabilitate prisoners.--tcm.com.
Subjects: Sing Sing Prison.; Crime; Criminals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Crash out : the true tale of a Hell's Kitchen kid and the bloodiest escape in Sing Sing history / by Goewey, David.(CARDINAL)471594;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301).
Subjects: Biographies.; Riordan, Whitey, 1915-1942.; Sing Sing Prison.; Shopping Bag Gang.; Escapes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Miracle at Sing Sing : how one man transformed the lives of America's most dangerous prisoners / by Blumenthal, Ralph.(CARDINAL)777952;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292) and index.
Subjects: Lawes, Lewis Edward, 1883-1947.; Sing Sing Correctional Facility.; Prison administration; Capital punishment; Death row inmates;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Newjack : guarding Sing Sing / by Conover, Ted.(CARDINAL)171964;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Conover, Ted.; Ossining Correctional Facility.; Sing Sing Prison.; Correctional personnel; Prisons; Prisons;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Newjack / by Conover, Ted.(CARDINAL)171964;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Conover, Ted.; Sing Sing Prison.; Ossining Correctional Facility.; Prisons; Correctional personnel; Prisons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Love, Jacaranda / by Flinn, Alex,author.(CARDINAL)704675;
As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate this new world of wealth and privilege.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Teenage girls; Children of prisoners; Benefactors; Boarding schools; Singing;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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Sing, unburied, sing [large print] / by Ward, Jesmyn,author.(CARDINAL)345339;
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); African American families; Multiracial families; Children of drug addicts; Siblings.; Drug addicts; Grandparent and child; Rural poor; Siblings.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 19
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The Rose Man of Sing Sing : a true tale of life, murder, and redemption in the age of yellow journalism / by Morris, James McGrath.(CARDINAL)343540;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-429) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Chapin, Charles E., 1858-1930.; Journalists; Prisoners;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jailhouse rock [videorecording] / by Berman, Pandro S.,1905-1996.; Presley, Elvis,1935-1977.(CARDINAL)137006; Shaughnessy, Mickey,1920-1985.; Thorpe, Richard,1896-1991.; Trosper, Guy.; Tyler, Judy.; Avon Productions.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.(CARDINAL)150193; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
Director of photography, Robert Bronner ; film editor, Ralph E. Winters.Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Dean Jones, Jennifer Holden.A young man is sent to prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl. While behind bars he takes up singing and is helped in the record business by a beautiful young woman.DVD; English, French, Spanish (Dolby digital 1.0 mono); widescreen anamorphic 2.35:1 aspect ratio on one side and standard format on the other side.
Subjects: Feature films.; Musical films.; Prisons; Singers; Singing; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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