In this Feb. 13, 2020 photo, prison employees open a door to a former cell block at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. A museum is being planned with a unique feature: a 300-foot-long corridor connecting to the roofless ruins of the original 19th century cell block inside the prison. Museum-goers would stand at the site of the first cramped cells at the prison just "up the river" from New York City. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
March 18, 2020
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At Sing Sing, a museum going in down the hall from inmates
OSSINING, N.Y. (AP) — Busting out of Sing Sing has been a dream of inmates since cell doors started clanging shut along the Hudson River in the 1820s. Now there’s a plan to usher visitors inside the high walls well known in the past to gangsters, Hollywood stars and prisoners condemned to the electric chair.