{"id":1724,"date":"2014-11-18T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2014-11-18T19:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T01:06:40","slug":"sing-sing-prison-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Sing Sing Prison Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sing Sing Prison Museum<\/a>\u00a0(Ossining, New York)<\/h1>\n

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Sing Sing Your Life!
\nJuly 19, 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since I had recently read the book\u00a0Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House<\/a>\u00a0I decided that when I visited New York, I had to stop by Sing Sing and see the infamous prison for myself. \u00a0I knew that there was a derelict section which comprised the original 1825 prison block, and that was what I most wanted to see. \u00a0I also knew that it was inside the prison complex so I probably wouldn’t see much anyway. \u00a0But still… I had to pay a visit.<\/p>\n

The town of Sing Sing isn’t called Sing Sing anymore – it’s called Ossining. \u00a0The\u00a0boring people who live there changed the name to try and separate\u00a0themselves from that infamous prison. \u00a0Of course, I don’t get that at all. \u00a0You’d think they’d want to celebrate their morbid claim to fame? \u00a0But then again, I’m “different” from most people.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I drove around the prison, which is situated in a lovely location along the bank of the Hudson River, and took a few photographs. I didn’t realize at the time that taking photographs of active prisons is a no-no! I found that out when I got yelled at by a mean man up in a tower. I kinda figured that, you know, all the historic marker signs in the area meant that it was a historic place that we could document, but I guess that was my naivety showing. \u00a0In any event, I got a few shots in before he doused\u00a0my fun with ice cold water just like they used to do to prisoners in the shower baths!<\/p>\n\n\t\t