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Document 18076

LEWIS E. LAWES: SING SING
Warden at Sing Sing has no photograph available.
TLS: "L.E. Lawes" as Warden of Sing Sing, 1p, 8½x11. State of New York, Department of Correction, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, 1940 December 19. To George D. Norris, Ridgefield, Washington. In full: "I am in receipt of your letter of recent date, and am sorry that I am unable to send you an autographed photograph inasmuch as I have none available." Lewis E. Lawes was Warden at Sing Sing from 1920-1941. As Warden, he emphasized the rehabilitation role of prisons. He instituted a number of reforms, including requiring that prisoners wear uniforms, staging theatricals and film showings, offering athletic programs and installing safety devices in prison workshops. Lawes advocated vocational training for convicts and the abolition of capital punishment. His best known book is Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (1932). Mid-horizontal fold touches ascenders in signature. Light transference of ink in bottom margin. Lightly creased. Overall, fine condition.

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