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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Crime, History