incarceration – Robert Brum

A daughter’s novel, a mother’s sentence

I was working at a weekly newspaper in Rockland County, N.Y., when the infamous Brink’s robbery unfolded nearly a half-century ago. The tragedy that shocked the community is still commemorated on Oct. 20 every year. The story came somewhat full circle in April 2026 when I ran into Judith Clark, a getaway driver convicted inContinue reading “A daughter’s novel, a mother’s sentence”

Sing Sing, the Movie: Hope Behind Bars

What goes on behind those high, ominous walls of Sing Sing, barely four miles from where I live? Life in the maximum security men’s prison is not exactly full of laughs. But a new film about the efforts of a theater group composed of prisoners to stage a comedy does have its lighter moments, amongContinue reading “Sing Sing, the Movie: Hope Behind Bars”