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Series I, Cycle C
In 1921 Lewis Lawes became the warden at New York's infamous Sing Sing Penitentiary. No prison in the country was tougher with more incidents of violence recorded during the period, but when Warden Lawes retired some twenty years later, Sing Sing had become a humanitarian institution. Those who studied prison reform in the period gave the credit for the institution's turn around to Lawes, but when he was asked about the transformation he had a different story. He once stated, "I owe it all to my wonderful wife, Catherine, who is buried inside the prison walls."