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Warden T.M. Osborne, Sing Sing (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 11 older comments, and then…
• ♫ Lion ♫ said:

  Nice, thanks :)

• DarkAngelDay said:

  Nice
  
  
  

• bior said:

  From the NY Times: "Thomas Mott Osborne of Auburn, N.Y., retired manufacturer, world traveler, lecturer, writer, and prison reformer, has accepted the offer of John B. Riley, State Superintendent of Prisons, of the post of the Warden of Sing Sing Prison."

• Ian said:

  Not exactly a nice place to overnight, I would imagine !!

• trialsanderrors said:

  bior I was about to say sounds like someone worthy of a Wikipedia entry, but it looks like someone beat me to it... Thomas Mott Osborne (September 23, 1859 – October 20, 1926) was an American prison administrator, prison reformer, industrialist and New York State political reformer. He was also known as "Tom Brown," a name he gave himself when he spent a week in the Auburn Prison in New York state in 1913. In an assessment of Osborne's life, a New York Times book reviewer wrote: "His career as a penologist was short, but in the interval of the few years he served he succeeded in revolutionizing American prison reform, if not always in fact, then in awakening responsibility.... He was made of the spectacular stuff of martyrs, to many people perhaps ridiculous, but to those whose lives his theories most closely touched, inspiring and often godlike."