Ossining

Os·si·ning

Formerly Sing Sing

A village of southeast New York north of New York City on the Hudson River. It is the site of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison founded in 1825.x

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The state commission of prisons consists of seven members appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate for a term of four years, and the institutions under its supervision in 1910 were the Sing Sing State Prison,' at Ossining, the Auburn State Prison at Auburn, the Clinton State Prison at Dannemora, the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, the Eastern New York Reformatory at Napanoch, five county penitentiaries, and all other institutions for the detention of sane adults charged with or convicted of crime, or retained as witnesses or debtors.

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