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This section includes interactive maps, statistical breakdown and analysis, and a timeline. These are visual and interactive representations of the Admission Records of Sing Sing Prison, publicly available from the New York State Archives via Ancestry.com. The map places each prisoner in their primary residence within the city’s political wards and neighborhoods. The breakdown takes the approximately 1100 prisoner profiles and categorizes them by physical characteristics, crimes committed, and sentences served, and offers a cross analysis of these categories. The timeline organizes key events relating to Sing Sing Penitentiary in the period from 1750-1900, including contextual information about the city, related institutions, and important developments in penal reform. Discover who these people were, where they lived, and what was happening in their city.

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