Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first authentic and fairly complete picture of what goes on in Sing Sing, from day to day, is told in a book of the month...
LIFE AND DEATH IN SING SING-Lewis E. Lawes-Doubleday, Doran...
...Picture. Author Lawes has been warden of Sing Sing since 1920. His kingdom averages about 1,700 inhabitants. They make and repair their own clothing, cook and serve their food, run a farm, a school, a library, a chapel, a laundry, a barber shop, a sewage system, a factory which turns out $650,000 worth of products a year, a power plant which, incidentally, supplies the "juice" used in the electric chair...
...Condemned Cells, which Warden Lawes calls the Death House and which convicts call the Slaughter House, are carefully segregated from the other Sing Sing buildings. Every precaution is taken to prevent the condemned-to-death prisoner from committing suicide. He is clothed in materials that cannot be made into a rope; on his feet are felt slippers. His fingernails are pared twice a week; he gets no knife or fork with his meals...
...Mamma, that man looks just like Papa,' said the little daughter of a minister to her mother, as she pointed to a Sing Sing prisoner who was doing ten years for grand larceny in connection with a confidence game. This was amusing to me, and exceedingly embarrassing to the mother, as the minister had previously insisted to me that criminals were physically marked and that he could pick them out of a crowd at a glance...