Reading can help create empathy and understanding. Here are some important voices to consider as we celebrate independence this week. Click on the following link to read the articles from Prison Journalism Project prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/07/02/7-s…

"I became a writer as soon as I was in prison. I was sitting in a cell thinking, what am I going to do with these nine years?" Dwayne Betts, lawyer, poet and the founder of Freedom Reads, in a conversation with PJP shares how he became a prison poet. prisonjournalismproject.org/2022/09/14/wri…

The Sing Sing Prison Museum welcomes your input as we begin the process of developing an indigenous land acknowledgment. Please feel free to share your ideas, contacts, resources, or thoughts in the comments section below!

The SSPM is thrilled to share our updated mission and vision statements.

WHAT WE'RE READING: This August, the SSPM has focused on Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover. To find out more about this groundbreaking memoir: singsingprisonmuseum.org/blog/what-we-a…

WHAT WE'RE LISTENING TO: This August, the SSPM has focused on Letters from Sing Sing from NBC News with Dan Slepian and Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez. Read our blog post: singsingprisonmuseum.org/blog/what-we-a…

From the Museum Association of New York, the webinar program "Prison Prisms: Reflections on Prison History and Criminal Justice Reform in NYS through the Lens of Auburn, Attica, and Sing Sing." The event takes place on September 8th at 12:00 pm. Register below: nysmuseums.org/Prison-Prisms

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Coming up this Friday, September 8th at 12:00pm, from Museum Association of New York, Prison Prisms: Reflections on Prison History and Criminal Justice Reform in New York State through the Lens of Auburn, Attica, and Sing Sing. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

That’s our program!

During [a] family trip to Washington, [DC] we visited the Smithsonian, we visited all the monuments and memorials, and that had a big impact on me. I think that’s where I first started to realize how interesting history was in general, but especially American history,” says Brent