Sing Sing as seen from Hook Mountain, across the Hudson River (Image by (Not Known) wiki creative commons) Details DMCA | I first met Denis Martinez late last summer. A mutual friend brought me up to Sing Sing, the infamous "Big House" prison that just as infamously sits "Up the River" from Manhattan. A 29-year-old native of the Dominican Republic, Denis is up there finishing a 13-year sentence for a non-lethal shooting he committed in New York back in his teens. When I met him, he had a year to go. At the time, I was looking for an inmate willing to work as a columnist. In his unit at Sing Sing, Denis is respected... He keeps a current Almanac in his cell and has become something akin to the human Google search of his unit. At night, when inmates watch the news on TV and argue about current events, they turn to Denis to be the arbiter of factual disputes. It's a respected job that he fulfills with relish and a lot of humor.' -- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone |
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