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In this Feb. 13, 2020 photo, stone walls are all that remain of a former cell block at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. The hollowed-out building used to house cells for 1,200 men on six tiers and runs well longer than a football field. It was constructed by inmates who were dropped off at the Hudson River landing in 1825 and ordered to mine limestone from the hillside for what would become their prison. It was used for housing for about a century while the prison grew up around it. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

In this Feb. 13, 2020 photo, stone walls are all that remain of a former cell block at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. The hollowed-out building used to house cells for 1,200 men on six tiers and runs well longer than a football field. It was constructed by inmates who were dropped off at the Hudson River landing in 1825 and ordered to mine limestone from the hillside for what would become their prison. It was used for housing for about a century while the …

March 18, 2020

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At Sing Sing, a museum going in down the hall from inmates
March 18, 2020 1:11 p.m.

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.