Hudson Link is thrilled to announce that Dr. Kim Hunter Reed, a noted advocate for increased access to higher education, will serve as the keynote speaker at the organization’s June 7th commencement ceremony at Sing Sing Correctional Facility Read More
For many incarcerated in Ossining, New York’s Sing Sing prison, the freedom granted to them after serving their sentences is illusory: Within three years, 42 percent of New York’s released inmates will find themselves locked up again, or “up the river” — that is, the Hudson River, upon which the prison sits, and from which the saying is derived. Read More
Sparkling in the sunlight that inspired 19th-century romantic painters of the Hudson River School, Sing Sing prison’s razor wire, through which inmates can see the flowing river, is almost pretty. Read More
Ossining program serves an outreach to prisoners’ young family members. “For many of the children in the neighborhood, they look up to us for all the wrong reasons. They look at prison as a rite of passage,” Sing Sing inmate Dario Pena said. Read More
Gannett Foundation Grant Reception in White Plains, Jan. 18, 2017. The media group awarded $20,000 to four organizations, including Hudson Link, in the lower Hudson Valley. Read More
A course at Clinton Correctional prison taught him to cut and solder pipes for air conditioning systems but the lesson Steuben Vega remembers best is how to count cards. Read More
Douglas Duncan dropped out of high school with little self-worth or hope for a future. Associations with the wrong people and a string of poor choices landed him in prison at the age of 24 with three young children at home.
“I believed that my life was over. I believed that I had no possibility of redemption. I believed that prison was all I was worth.” Read More
“I woke up in a place I didn’t know existed. I thought my life was over.”
These are the words of Sean Pica, who found himself in prison at the age of 16, staring down a 24-year sentence. Young, shy, and ashamed of what he’d done, Sean found himself trying to grow up and survive in prison – all at the same time. Read More
With the highest incarceration rate in the world, the United States is home to an estimated 6.8 million people under supervision in the U.S. adult correctional system, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Read More
College Classes Get a Boost at New York State Prisons, From the Wall Street Journal, By Corinne Ramey: Manhattan district attorney’s office, in agreement with state, allocates $7.5 million in bank forfeiture funds for college programs in prison. Read More