The Archive · 1915

Happy Sing Sing

The only newspaper in the world written, printed and published convicts far convicts is to be te at Sing Sing, America's inge-t viet establishment, It is called "Star of Hope", a appro priate title in view' of recent. ex periments in convict management. The convicts recently associated thonselves ax "The Golden Rule Brotherhood," and the warden the gawd has made a compact with them, allowing the brotherhood to vnfores discipline in all minor cases. To all intents and purposes, the convicts have become a self governing Republic with their own court tw try and sentence offenders, It is not surprising to find that the first thing they have done hai been to arrange for moving picture shows, to relax rules relating to siters and the exchange of letters with the outside world. Daily hesspapers are to be allowed—in cells and members of the brother hood ray wear grey sweaters instead of convict stripes. Life, fret, is the made easy and genial, the sort of place to which even the cole) murderer will not

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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