Explore the History of the Notorious Sing Sing Prison

Untapped New York: Explore the History of the Notorious Sing Sing Prison

“Sing Sing Prison, one of the country’s most notorious prisons, has for 200 years led shifts in the national prison system, from the adoption of a system stressing solitary confinement to major reform movements. The prison, and specifically its historic Cellblock, has for decades raised conversations surrounding major criminal justice issues such as the architecture of confinement, women in prison, progressive reform, corporal and capital, punishment, congregant and contract labor, mass incarceration and prisons in popular culture.”

Untapped Webinar: Creating the Sing Sing Prison Museum on June 1, 2021 at 12pm

Additional reading:

ABC News, March 18, 2020: At Sing Sing, a museum going in down the hall from inmates

New York Magazine, September 21, 2020: When Coronavirus Came to Sing Sing

The New York Times, May 24, 2021: How Vaccine Hesitancy Spread in My Prison