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”
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‘She didn’t kill him. She wasn’t guilty’
So many unanswered questions in the wake of Helen Ray Fowler’s execution at Sing Sing. A curious local historian seeks to answer them in a new play being staged just miles from where she died in the prison’s infamous electric chair. Here’s the backstory plus a preview of the two-act drama …
Robert Brum 