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In 1937 Lewis E. Lawes, warden of New York State's Sing Sing prison, became known as a playwright with the production of his first dramatic effort, Chalked Out. This renowned champion of the rehabilitative approach to penology and opponent of the death penalty had become famous for his experimental work at Ossining (Sing Sing) prison in the 1920s where, as a disciple of the great reform penologist Thomas Mott Osborne, he instituted many needed changes and eliminated much of the brutality that had characterized the treatment of prisoners in the facility since the turn of the century. These accomplishments had done much to enhance his reputation as an expert on prison management and policy, but his popularity came from his weekly radio program, which brought him more than two hundred fan letters a week, and from his book, Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing...
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