Sing Sing
Hudson River lockup
Sing Sing is a maximum-security prison in Ossining, New York, on the Hudson River.
Opened in 1826, it became synonymous with harsh incarceration and was once the site of New York's electric chair.
The name appears in idioms about doing hard time: He's headed to Sing Sing.
The prison's notoriety made it a cultural shorthand for serious imprisonment.
Confinement in jail
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- cellblockPrison housing unit
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
convict · penitentiary · detention · confinement · custody · guards · bars · rehabilitation
Major New York estuary
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- WestchesterNew York suburban county
- riverfrontLand along a river
- upstreamToward a river's origin
The eighteen hundreds
- landmarkNotable point of reference
- notoriousFamous for negativity
- infamousHaving a terrible reputation
- reformImprove by correcting faults
corruption · death house · condemned · archive · tours · museum · documentary · film
incarceration
Confinement in jail
solitary · convict · penitentiary · detention · confinement · custody · guards · bars · rehabilitation · parole
Hudson River
Major New York estuary
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- WestchesterNew York suburban county
- riverfrontLand along a river
19th century
The eighteen hundreds
- landmarkNotable point of reference
- notoriousFamous for negativity
- infamousHaving a terrible reputation
reform · corruption · death house · condemned · archive · tours · museum · documentary · film · legacy
- NY PrisonsAttica, Rikers Island, Rikers, Clinton, Auburn
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- penal historyprison, prisons, gaols, jails, penitentiaries
- Prison Memoirsprison memoirs, prison letters, doing time, behind bars, hard time
- Hudson ValleyHudson River, Hudson River School, Henry Hudson, Kingston, Poughkeepsie
- Penal Coloniespenal colony, penal settlement, transportees, convict, convict ship
Sing Singfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · free world · open society · home · sanctuary
Sing Singminimum security prison
Low-risk inmate housing
county jail · halfway house · Club Fed · house arrest · probation
Sing Singheaven
Sky or bliss
Eden · utopia · Shangri-La · Mar-a-Lago · Beverly Hills
song, singer, singing, sung, sang, unsung, songbird, songster, songbook