Prison Chronicles
Season 1 • Episode 4: Sing Sing • Watch with subtitles
Episode 4: Sing Sing
August 5, 2024 • 21 min
A maximum-security prison on the banks of the Hudson, just 30 miles north of New York City, it gave rise to the term “being sent up the river”. “Old Sparky”–one of the first electric chairs in the world–takes over 600 lives. Famed escape artist Wille Sutton attempts an audacious plan. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, cold War spies, fight for their lives on death row. And a 1983 spontaneous uprising where the inmates take control.
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