Article: Sing Sing.(FAMOUS FIRST DUE)(Sing Sing Correctional Facility)

fighting fire is dangerous enough but the members of Ossining, New York's Holla Hose Company No. 5 have a bit more to contend with--they're first due at Sing Sing, one of America's most infamous prisons.

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Built on the eastern bank of the Hudson River in 1826, the Sing Sing Correctional Facility and town drew its name from the Sint Sinck Indians who inhabited the area. "The Big House" and "up the river" are terms born at the imposing maximum-security institution.

Sing Sing's Death House executed 614 inmates between 1891 and 1963. Gangsters like Louis "Lepke" Buchalter of Murder Inc. and high-profile Cold War criminals ...

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