Why Criminals WANT to Get Locked up at SING SING Prison | The Forbidden Truth

[@moosecat]

When the late, great Lou Gehrig played for the Yankees, he would take part in the exhibition games at Sing Sing. Because Lou was born and raised in New York City, he actually knew some of the prisoners growing up, and that affected him. After retiring from baseball, he went to work as a parole board member for New York City until his declining health prevented him from fulfilling the role.

[@OfftheWallTales]

Wow, didn’t know this. Thanks for the info! I’ve been a New Yorker all my life, but an upstate New Yorker 3 hours north of the City, so I tend not to know little stories like this. Because… well, I live across from a farm, and the restaurant I work for is very high end and across from a horse pasture. So it’s kind of like living in Nebraska.

[@42WasTheAnswer]

You and me might have been neighbors! Shout out to all the folks of Chenango County 🤘

[@raymondtorres-gy8uj]

​@@OfftheWallTales😂😂😂You could say that your from the Moon!!! 😂😂😂👍

[@raymondtorres-gy8uj]

Thank you for sharing that info i'am also from NY from Brooklyn NY east ny but did'nt know about that si thanks again... Blessings to you and your family always from Puerto Rico with lot's of love

[@moosecat]

@@raymondtorres-gy8uj My Dad lived in Park Slope, and I'm from Richmond Hill in Queens. Blessings to you and yours from Washington State.

[@fortress1133]

The prison was literally the definition of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[@jacobpenkava2980]

Clever!!!!!!

[@emt5330]

It also is the origin of the term " getting sent up the river." The term refers to being sent up the Hudson river to the prison from NYC

[@fourtyfivefudd]

My many times great uncle was executed by electric chair at sing sing. He was a member of the Blue Ribbon Gang in Buffalo, NY in the 20s or 30s. His name was Max (The Goose) Rybarczyk. And funnily enough, in the 80s, Cuomo (governor at the time) actually acquitted him, saying he shouldn’t have been executed for a crime that he couldn’t be proven to have taken part in, as the leader refused to give up who actually did it other than himself. …as if being acquitted after your already dead even matters

[@Sniperboy5551]

Aside from being symbolic, it does actually mean something. It’s revising history, he will be remembered as someone who was wrongfully executed, rather than as a criminal.

[@fourtyfivefudd]

@@Sniperboy5551 I wouldn’t go that far. He was a criminal and did murder lol. Just not that PARTICULAR crime. He probably would have been justly executed or at least imprisoned for life not long after I would imagine for something else. He was part of a small time mob

[@CarsandCats]

Well it sure matters for political reasons!

[@CarsandCats]

@@Sniperboy5551 All about that history revision, aren't we? See the comment below on how that works out.

[@robertomaricruz6026]

​@@fourtyfivefuddhe was still wrongfully executed. He was killed for a murder he didn't do. Yes even though he was a criminal and committed other crimes or murders etc he was still WRONGFULLY EXECUTED because this crime he didn't commit.

[@jetsons101]

I remember as a kid Sing Sing being talked about in old B&W gangster movies. Thanks, Ryan, for another great watch.............

[@jimoconnor6382]

3 Stooges made mention

[@kishascape]

Also law and order in the 90s episodes.

[@hildahilpert5018]

@@jetsons101 For those who don't know Warden Lawton wrote a book called 20,000 years in SingSing.This was in the late 1920s1930s.Think they even back in those days made a movie aboutit.There was a movie called I was a Fugitive from A Chain Gang staring Paul Muni, based on a book written by a former convict.

[@Mk99987]

The name of the native tribe that lived there was Sint Sinck.

[@joelmonkley6177]

Old Sparky lived at Sing Sing for years never got charged for homicide

[@DanIAmIBe]

The phrase “going up the river” refers to being sent to Sing Sing.

[@jamesmccullers9916]

That's exactly were it came from

[@Liv2DJ]

Big house

[@tomfuller5585]

And "getting sold down the river" referred to rebellious slaves who were threatened with being sold in New Orleans.

[@raymondtorres-gy8uj]

Love the way you tell the stories, just came across your channel and i really enjoyed watching this vídeo SO you have a new fan, subcriber.... I'll spread the channel with friends and family....👍

[@onrr1726]

My Grandfather worked at Sing Sing Prision in the 1950's shortly after his Discharge from the Maine Corps when he returned from the Korean War. New Guards would often be sent to Sing Sing for training before getting their assignments else where in the state. He worked in Auburn Prison as both a Tower Guard and the Union President up till around late 1979 or early 1980 before taking an early retirement due to a back injury. Sadly he passed away in December 2021 after his 81st birthday.

[@jaminova_1969]

My Uncle Bill worked at Sing Sing around the same time. He told me about the Rosenbergs and his experience as a WW2 Bombardier on a B17! Cheers!

[@davestrang8585]

@@onrr1726 that's a tough job and not for everyone. I did it for 7 yrs in Mo.

[@leonb2637]

Some sent to NY State prison who are from the NYC area or Long Island would rather be at the 'Sing Sing' as closer to where spouses, family live so can visit them. Many of NYS's prisons are hours away or not accessible by bus or trains from the 'downstate' area. One operational problem for this prison is the high costs of housing as in one of the most expensive suburban areas of the USA. Many new prison officers have to start there and there has long been issues of affordable housing for them.

[@lynnesimmons3112]

My heart breaks because they can’t have visit’s, they should pay the officers accordingly to the local cost of living.

[@jamesmccullers9916]

I use to hear cos talking about that for years in so many different jails through out the state but it's definitely a fact tho 👍👌💪💯💯💯

[@AC-jk8wq]

Nice work again Ryan! The pic of the Massachusetts license plate was probably made at Walpole State in Walpole, MA… 😃

[@killaant84]

My dad and uncle were in walpole,I'm from Springfield Massachusetts

[@mattr8090]

Great video very informative. Can you make a video about San Quentin or Folsom state prisons please 🙏.

[@ray3576]

I was in a block k84. Out of all the prisons I landed at, sing sing was the best. Everything you wanted, you can find a way to get it and the female c.o.s was off the hook.

[@OfftheWallTales]

9:20 For anyone wondering, the photo isn’t really graphic but it would be against YT TOS since it shows someone dying. So it is heavy. But if you want to see, search ‘sing sing 1928 photo’ and you’ll see Ruth. I don’t consider it graphic as you can’t see her face, she is very blurry due to movement, and there’s no sign of her actually being electrocuted at the moment. (Ie even though she was, there’s no sparks of electricity or worse, fire which has happened from the chair.) it’s a haunting photo but it isn’t graphic.

[@meberg500]

I looked up the pic and couldn't understand why he claims KZbin won't allow it. I guess the difference is that it's a real photo of a real incident? I've seen worse in a Nine Inch Nails video!

[@Budehgong]

@@meberg500 I've seen worse in newspapers. That photograph itself is not schocking whatsoever in today's world.

[@meberg500]

@@Budehgong Well, technically it is shocking for one person! 😁

[@denisefarmer366]

If you think about it, being strapped and immobilized in the chair, waiting....waiting for the shock. Seems cruel and unusual I guess, but so is being strapped to a gurney waiting for the IV to drip drip drip.....drop. it's a crazy system and maybe firing squad is preferred?

[@TheZackofSpades]

@@denisefarmer366 I have always genuinely thought life imprisonment was the the more “harsh” result than state-sanctioned murder, but maybe that isn’t the point? I went to law school but never really vibe’d with theories of criminality

[@Bronx_Yankee]

The phrase “up the river” comes to life on a boat ride to Bear Mountain…..as you floated by you could hear buzzers, alarms and PA systems

[@falloutcosplay8802]

Albert fish was at sing sing prison and died there

[@mikeypiros6647]

Was in auburn in 1988, they still had the chair, but was not used any more. Auburn is the oldest prison in New York..

[@jamesmccullers9916]

It wAs actually in NYC first then they moved it upstate it's definitely a very old prison I couldn't stand that place the cos are Total ass holes

[@SalvatoreEnea-bv7zh]

I was there in 92 then in 2007 what a different it became bunk beds in cells

[@johnalder6028]

There were steps down to the train tracks and some prisoners got off there and were escorted to the prison.

[@jameskoryta7197]

Very informative presentation. Thank you.

[@danseeloff867]

My uncle was there from 2000-2004, my grandmother & I would take the Amtrak from Niagara Falls to go visit him. I remember the guards there in the visitation room didn't give a crap what the inmates were doing with their girlfriends 😂 it was kinda awkward sitting there with my grandma while the couple at the table next to us is making out.

[@jamesmccullers9916]

Lol they do more than just make out in visit that's one of the reasons it was nic named swing swing 😂😂😂

[@anthonyrivera842]

Was there also did some time in the 90s we don't call it sing sing we call it swing swing

[@LoyalAsst]

​@@jamesmccullers9916😂Swing Swing🤣

[@LoyalAsst]

​@@anthonyrivera842😂

[@JuliusRobinson1972]

@@anthonyrivera842 Them nurses were giving it up

[@Austrian_blood]

Sing, sing = Ossining, NY.

[@PatricioGarcia1973]

It has a nice museum too. If you take the metronorth towards Poughkeepsie you pass right next to the prison. The museum has the electric chair used on lots of death row prisoners

[@OfftheWallTales]

Oh my god, I’ve taken this train at least 50 times in my life and never realized. Wow. I mean, I will be honest and say by Ossing I’m normally checked out of the scenery around me. But I didn’t know we literally travel THROUGH the complex until I just looked at a map.

[@jamesmccullers9916]

I was there and from my window I could see the Mero and NYC hell of a nice view at night time tho

[@shawntailor5485]

That was the chair Edison tried to ruin Tesla with .

[@rahrahrobbbieee]

Sing Sing is slang for Ossining, NY.

[@sarge6870]

THANK YOU!!! Guess you gotta be a New Yorker like me to know that!!

[@bobgarske9579]

Love the shirt!

[@danielpowers6246]

I was in SingSing in 1981 and played softball in the lower yard!

[@jamesmccullers9916]

Tappan

[@bilbobagginses4941]

Sing Sing was a hotel compared to my hometown prison, The infamous Auburn State.

[@nlpnt]

I thought the answer to the headline question would be because it's in the commuter belt (the rail line running through it is the Metro-North mainline) and much more accessible for family visits from NYC than, say, Five Points or Dannemora.

[@Powerule23]

It's exceptionally accessible for residents of NYC, including CO's, which is why "the Swing" is considered the 'hood of prisons within the state.

[@GOOGLM3_NY]

Sing Sing is in Ossining. Not Mount Pleasant. I am an Ossining resident.

[@marilynperez7717]

Right !! I was like that’s not right. I visited someone there and took the Metro North train 🚊 There.

[@HuckBuddies]

@12:41 A digital museum, i hadn't heard of this terminology before. Great idea for the times.

[@bobtheelectrician6692]

@3:52 Photo of Lester B. Pearson, former prime minister of Canada, flanked by J. F. Dulles and Ike.

[@CheckinVidsOnline]

They used to call it “ Getting sent up the river”, because, If you take the Metro-North (Hudson Line) north from NYC to Ossining, It’s literally right on the side of The Hudson River. I used commute to work every day, and had no idea I was passing right by this place. (Good thing, I never ended up in there, 😳🤷‍♂️😂)

[@anonnymowse]

Sing Sing was briefly called the Ossining Correctional Facility but the name was changed back to Sing Sing because the town didn't want to have the same name. The condo beside it uses the old warden's home as their communal building. I recently saw someone with a Sing Sing football team sweatshirt. The man's wife works there.

[@theraceanalystphdprovingha4119]

Just left the prison...the guard was up and eyeballing hard as I drove in supervisors' parking lot. Now onto 87 South...Thanks!

[@Powerule23]

This is really well done. This is the first time I've seen so many aerial shots of the compound. I've driven to the facility while visiting Ossining and all you can see is two exterior walls. Otherwise, the only way you can see "in" is from a boat on the Hudson.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Thank you very much!

[@ctntelevisionnetwork8738]

Great video as always! I have a video suggestion: The Western Union Building. This has been a building near the wtc site built in 1873 and the top floors burned down in 1890

[@denisefarmer366]

A relative worked for Western Union her whole life, retired around 1960. I'd like to see a program about it. Thanks

[@anthonyrivera842]

All inmates don't call the prison sing sing we call it swing swing for harldy no laws

[@paulw176]

they enforced strict quiet at lights outensuring inmates got decent sleep. Sign me up!

[@KattMurr]

I have some experience in that I currently work for NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision as a library clerk. I do not work in a facility but at an office in upstate N.Y. I've only been in this position less than a year, so still learning a lot!

[@OfftheWallTales]

Upstate New York for the win! I’m 2.5 hours north of the City. (About 40 minutes south of Albany, near the town that shares the river’s name.) I’ve worked government jobs and I loved them if just for the fact that I also got to learn little things about the state’s history from them.

[@KattMurr]

@@OfftheWallTales I live in a suburb of Albany...

[@bilbobagginses4941]

Auburn here.

[@jamesbianco5655]

My biological Grandfather was a Prisoner at Sing Sing Prison, he was apart of a gang in New York City called the Westies. He was in Prison for Burglary, Sullivan Law which is gun possesion, kidnapping and a few other crimes.

[@juliewoods6534]

The real purpose behind The Sullivan Law was to allow police to slip a pistol in the pocket of a political rival while he was being frisked. that ensured a quick conviction.

[@killaant84]

I know who the westies are they worked with castellano

[@frankflstf]

The Westie’s were well known gang and very feared the boss Jimmy Kunin is still locked up to this day very vicious man

[@Liv2DJ]

My folks worked in the infirmary for well over 16 years. Stories for days

[@HuckBuddies]

@19:21 The image is graphic, i had to go find it. Made my heart hurt! 😢

[@glennso47]

I thought Sing Sing was in California. Maybe I’m thinking about another prison. San Quentin for example.

[@stevenweiss2148]

@glennso47..Sing Sing is in the village of Ossining New York. Westchester county

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Well done

[@Legitlyyy]

The exterior was also used in Oz for the fictional Oswald State Penitentiary!

[@BronxNewYork718]

Yea I been to Ossining once. Whack ass city 😂

[@overland_adventure_nz]

I cannot believe that the Sing Sing Prison is in the USA, yes I’ve heard the name in the prison before, but I always associate it with one of the Asian countries like Thailand, Vietnam Cambodia some like that.

[@ladyhonor822]

❤ GO NAVY 🇺🇲 NOSTROVIA ☦️ TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 🏥🌃😢

[@CatchyNameF1]

You can distinguish KZbinrs that made it, from their expensive and grotesque haircuts.

[@bludowski]

I KNOW THIS PLACE!!! ITS NEXT TO THE METRO NORTH TRAIN I TOOK AS KID TO GET TO MY GRANDPARENTS!!

[@rossbryan6102]

WHEN I WAS A KID IN THE LATE 40s AND THE 50s WE USED TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE TO LOOK AT THE WANTED CRIMINALS RUNNING LOOSE! EVEN IN KANSAS , SING SING PRISON WAS ALSO KNOWN TO US KANSAS KIDS ,EVEN MORE THAN LEAVENWORTH FEDERAL PRISON! I DID GET TO VIEW THE PRISON RIDING AMTRAK BETWEEN ALBANY AND NYC!

[@bethr8756]

@@rossbryan6102 stop shouting

[@TonyVerrazano]

Great grandfather spent time here in 1938.

[@jcl271]

We should still be able to run prisons like that

[@jhosk]

I for one would prefer that prisons go back to similar to the old ways. My ideal prison was one where the inmates produce EVERYTHING they need! But before they receive anything they would provide for local schools, don't work then don't eat.

[@lifted0422]

Your living in dreamland not gonna happen

[@shawntailor5485]

My life has been dont work dont eat since we could pull weeds on the garden . It's the way it should be , prison or not .

[@cruxiql]

I drove up to that prison on a jetski to take a look at it. Guards told me to get away or else.

[@Sniperboy5551]

We need to bring capital punishment back.

[@Fred-mp1vf]

I agree, but it's absurd that it costs over $1,000,000 to carry out each execution!

[@mikeseier4449]

@@Fred-mp1vfI’ll do it for 20 bucks and a hoagie!…

[@eric_has_no_idea]

Ummm no. You trust the government and prosecutors to be infallible? In Illinois we found a dozen people were forced to confess, and later found to have not even be the right person. It was also found that evidence was faked, and witnesses were coerced. This was found across the country repeatedly. So again, do you trust your city and state to never make a mistake? Are you ok with innocent people being executed?

[@rsinclair689]

​@@Fred-mp1vfVets can do it for $100

[@frankmetz867]

Had to make deliveries there it is a beautiful location no wonder why a contractor would want the property to make a fortune

[@jamesmccullers9916]

I left that spot 11 years ago and didn't look back 👍💪💯💯💯💯

[@glennso47]

What about the prison in Thomson Illinois? Can you do a video of that?

[@glennwall552]

The same up the river applies to psychiatric hospital.

[@bak-mariterry5180]

I WORKED 5 YEARS IN A ROW... PRESSING LICENSE PLATES .... IM A LICENSE PLATES PRESS'IN MO' FO !

[@petemcconn2524]

Im from Nyack NY, Hook MTN overlooks the Hudson, to Ossining

[@davidllewis4075]

given I thought it was a federal prison in California, I'd say I learned something new here.

[@RobertHendrix-nh4vo]

They still use lock step in nyc your handcuffed to another person

[@phishENchimps]

Oh man. it feels so good to criticize people from the past with current "moral" standards. Presentists ruin history.

[@umertheclumsytube193]

Who’s here from the book how to win friends and influence people?

[@allenmorgan6847]

West Point should be featured

[@randyslegacy99]

As someone from Orange County, I agree.

[@jennyfermerchan]

I live 4 minutes away from the prison I went pass by the prison wall after school and I’m not lying about it.

[@Liv2DJ]

Class of 2000

[@peeweemax100]

I'm a retired correctional officer, nothing special about sing sing

[@mrwaterschoot5617]

allot of history on the henry hudson river.. on the the hudson sully sullenbrerger landed a multi zon airplane with 2 dead jet engines safely on the Hudson. the vaptain was prepared to go under if all passenger and crew were safe ...

[@shawntailor5485]

SULLY !!!!

[@jefffarr6546]

Wonder what the picture was that they couldn’t show. I think I found it, picture of Rosenberg sitting in old sparky, but not sure if it’s the right one.

[@carolineborgia7475]

editor here- I found it while I was editing it when I googled “Ruth Snyder” 😬

[@mathewhilbert1809]

It’s photo of her in the chair

[@ramonitavelez6746]

Yay sing sing I can't wait to go to sing sing

[@treuky]

Having contract services with prisoners or prisons with only want the state to increase the prison rate in order to increase their revenue through prison incarceration..

[@LukeWarm05]

vs. = "versus", not "verse"

[@lynnesimmons3112]

IMO it should go back to labor, lockstep, and capital punishment. Sorry, not sorry.

[@brianedwards7142]

Asking for comment from anyone with experience of executions sounds like the setup for a horror movie.

[@cassidylava2587]

My husband just landed there last week

[@themancalledx]

Sing Sing prison is in Ossining NY,not Mt.Pleasant

[@LoveLestat]

i mean i looked ar aerial photos and it looks escapeable (not easy escape but definatley escapeable)

[@JosephMullady-kz5zl]

I was in Sing Sing and it's a dump.😮😮😮😮

[@danielpeters2282]

Check out the Yuma territorial prison. Brutal

[@krakentoast]

Lmao the name

[@maxivisionvermont1333]

First lol just love history

[@freetolook3727]

Congratulations on your victory! Here's your participation trophy!! 🏆😂

[@cigarsgunsanddiesel8032]

10:30 THIS is the "Juneteenth" I celebrate! Hope they're rotting downstairs!

[@Itsaboutthewaterlife]

Wow.

[@davidnichols240]

It's like being back on the Street ?

[@mahmoodkohatiPakistan]

Very nice beautiful fantastic 🛳️🚢🚢🛶🛥️⛵🛳️🚢🚢👌👍

[@RonConcillo]

I was a correction officer 1974

[@greggweber9967]

Consider what it was like that this progressed from.

[@garybowlin7707]

Be like Idaho, bring back the firing squad.

[@todzarneckey2529]

progressiveness look what it's got us now

[@redneckroy8947]

The Ruth Snyder picture isnt disturbing or hraphic at all

[@stevenamendola2816]

I did 4 months in simg sing lol

[@jamesmccullers9916]

I see they didn't say anything about that big ass prostitution ring that had going on in sing sing

[@pannamal5182]

Thought sing sing 🎵 was a music academy. Thanks for clarification on the subject

[@ralphgedney1782]

Thanks for the laugh!

[@DJslopp10]

9:14 yes

[@JamesHorn-i4b]

Right old sparky old stark Florida prison

[@bean420man]

The image of Ruth Snyder isn't intense. Stop supporting censorship.

[@treuky]

Yeah seems like sing sing with nothing but a money maker, now it's probably more organized in the world how they make the money off these damn prisoners, obviously through the state 8 billion dollars. The funny thing is they don't have enough correction officers now make that make f****** sense

[@ro_of_israel9514]

The south would never lol

[@hatednyc]

No one wants to get locked up.

[@thomasbassett5028]

I believed the name Sing Sing was derived from the local Indian tribe, the Sint Sincks, a faction of the Mohegans that occupied the area. Sint Sincks begot Sing Sing, begot Ossining. Ossining has an areas known as Indian Village and all the streets are named for Indian Tribes and up until woke political correctness the local school athletic teams were the Indians. Now they're named after some bird. Anyway I enjoyed the video, I lived down the street from the prison for a time and went into the prison several times to remove sick or injured prisoners as a member of the local EMS corps.

[@jamesferguson2353]

cool I grew up in Ossining from 1970 to 1988 then me and my family moved. I remember seeing the walls of the prison from my grandparents kitchen window on Spring street.

[@barbt.9211]

Hi, than you must have known Mike aka the WIZARD. He was a great friend.