MORE ABOUT SING SING FROM A 1938 ETUDE MAGAZINE
Last week I posted a story about some bandits who sang a hymn while they robbed people. The story suggested that, if caught, they should be sent to Sing Sing Prison.
This week I read that the warden at Sing Sing instituted a music program for the inmates, believing that music improves prison morale and helps the prisoners to seek better things. Sing Sing has a band of seventy-five members and an orchestra of twenty. Several have made their own instruments. There's a Glee Club of sixty and a Bugle Corps of twenty-two. The buglers play for the marching in to meals. All inmates, except those on Death Row, can particiapte.