Tag: Frederick Wood

• Sing Sing’s Death House – 1891 to 1963.

  

  Sing Sing. The name alone implies bad conditions, violence, fear, poor food, hard labour, harder punishments, misery and death. Even the name itself suits a prison, coming from the Native American phrase ‘Sinck Sinck’ meaning ‘Stone upon stone.’ Movie fans may remember James Cagney’s ‘Angels with Dirty Faces’ where screen gangster ‘Rocky Sullivan’ (inspired by…

  CrimeScribe

  June 4, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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