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Fifty Years in Sing Sing
ISBN-13:
9781438454245
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Alfred Conyes
Serie:
Excelsior Editions Excelsior Editions
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Written more than eighty years ago, Fifty Years in Sing Sing is the personal account of Alfred Conyes (1852-1931), who worked as a prison guard and then keeper at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, from 1879 to 1929. This unpublished memoir, dated 1930, was found among his granddaughter's estate by his great-granddaughter Penelope Kay Jarrett. Near the end of his life, Conyes told his story to family member Alfred Van Buren Jr., relating, in detail, harrowing and humorous accounts of what prison life was like from his perspective and how prison conditions changed over the course of a half century. The book covers prison hardship, cruel punishments deemed appropriate at the time, daring and clever escapes, the advent of death by electricity, Prohibition, doughboys, and prison reform.
List of Illustrations Foreword by Ted Conover Preface Acknowledgments and Editorial Note Foreword to the Original Manuscript by Lewis Lawes Prelude Destiny Carved in Stone Clinton Prison: An Inside Portrait Sing Sing Prison-Now and Then Lost Souls Sewing on Soles To Be Put to Death Holding the Line The High Cost of Freedom: Leaving Sing Sing, Leaving This Earth A Promise to Be Kept A Narrow Escape, Suicide, and Tragedy Do Good and Make Good Better Alive Than Dead Notes
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