Sing Sing is also the name of a
French radio station.Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a
maximum security prison in
Ossining,
New York, USA. It is located in
Ossining New York approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of
New York City on the banks of the
Hudson River. The name comes from the town of Ossining's original name of "Sing Sing", though the penitentiary was first called "Mount Pleasant" when it opened in 1828. In 1825, the state legislature gave the job of building a new, more modern prison to Captain Elam Lynds, a prison warden from upstate New York. Lynds spent months investigating possible locations for the facility including
Staten Island, the
Bronx and an area called Mt. Pleasant, New York on the shores of the Hudson River. He also visited
New Hampshire where a prison was successfully constructed by inmate labor using stone that was available on site. For this reason, Lynds selected Mt. Pleasant, located near a small village in Westchester County with the unlikely name of Sing Sing. It was derived from the Indian words, "Sint Sinks" which translates to "stone upon stone." The legislature appropriated $20,100 for the land and the project soon received the official stamp of approval. Today Sing Sing houses more than 1,700 prisoners. There are plans to convert the original 1825 cell block, which still stands, into a museum.
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