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Sing Sing prison in New York: what is known about it and what do Russian spies have to do with it

'20.11.2020'

Vita Popova

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The most notorious villains were imprisoned and imprisoned in Sing Sing. It was once executed here so often that the electric chair practically did not stand idle. For almost 200 years of history, only one person managed to escape from here. The author of the blog "Zinzer Books Magazine" on the website told about spies from the USSR and Italian mafiosi who served time here Yandex Zen.

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“There is an expression in American English up the river -“ up the river ”. Usually it is used in sentences like: He will go up the river - "he will go up the river", or They sent him up the river - "he was sent up the river." The expression means that someone will end badly or someone went to jail, ”the author writes.

This phrase has specific historical implications. The river in this case is the Hudson, which flows along New York. Upstream of the Hudson is Sing Sing High Security Prison. “Did you see the movie with Bruce Willis as the Hudson Hawk robber? It is precisely because the hawk and the Hudson that came out at the beginning of the film from Sing-Sing, ”the author explained.

Literally Sing-Sing translates as "stone upon stone". The prison borrowed such an unusual name from an Indian tribe that lived exactly where it is now located.

This prison began its work in 1826. The regime in Sing Sing was really strict. “It is clear that a comparison with the Soviet GULAG is hardly appropriate here. But the fact that the prisoners were completely forbidden to talk, they moved only in a "rigid coupling" with other comrades on the criminal path, during the walks everyone had to look strictly in one direction, and, finally, the fact that the electric chair was turned off only to to remove the still twitching corpse and plant a new "patient" - all this brought Sing-Sing a gloomy glory. And only a dozen kilometers from neon Times Square, Broadway and musicals, ”the author writes.

Sing Sing has been in operation for almost 200 years and is the second largest colony in the United States in terms of the number of prisoners, of which there are now more than two thousand people. According to the court, the most notorious criminals are sent to this prison.

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At one time, the Rosenberg spouses were serving time here for espionage for the USSR. In 1953 they were executed. "This process was dark, and it is still not entirely clear whether they were executed for the cause or not, but the point is that the Rosenbergs allegedly stole US nuclear secrets, which resulted in the appearance of nuclear weapons from Comrade Stalin," the author notes.

Italian mafiosi also served their sentences here. You can read about the crimes that they and immigrants from Soviet Odessa committed on the famous "diamond" street in New York. here.

Several times in Sing Sing the prisoners raised uprisings, but they were all brutally suppressed.

And only one person managed to escape from this prison - bank robber Willie Sutton.

By the way, the prisoners themselves gave the electric chair the cute nickname Old Sparky, or Old Iskrun. “Executions in Sing Sing stopped in 1964, it was then that Old Iskrun did his job for the last time, after which he was moved to another similar institution as an exhibit for a future museum,” the author noted.

In 1935, during a trip to the United States, Sing Sing was visited by two Soviet writers - Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. They later wrote the book One-Story America. “Read it - you will learn a lot of new things,” the author recommends at last.

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