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The Hudson Line is a commuter rail line owned and operated by the Metro-North Railroad in the U.S. state of New York. It runs north from New York City along the east shore of the Hudson River, terminating at Poughkeepsie. The line was originally the Hudson River Railroad (and the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad south of Spuyten Duyvil ...
Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor; August 23, 1943 – July 24, 2021) was an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979. He also pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 25 years to life for two further murders committed in New York and ...
The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is the department of the New York State government that maintains the state prisons and parole system. [1] There are 44 prisons funded by the State of New York, and approximately 28,200 parolees at seven regional offices as of 2022. [2] As of 2016 New York does not contract ...
Attica Correctional Facility. / 42.8500°N 78.2717°W / 42.8500; -78.2717. Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the Town of Attica, New York, [2] [3] operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It was constructed in the 1930s in response to earlier riots within the ...
The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison called Newgate located in New York City. A second state prison opened 20 years later in Auburn in 1817, and in 1825 a group of Auburn prisoners made the voyage across the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to begin building Sing Sing in the village of Ossining ...
Sheldon Silver. Sheldon Silver (February 13, 1944 – January 24, 2022) was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney from New York City who served as speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1994 to 2015. A native of Manhattan 's Lower East Side, Silver served in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015.
Kate Hudson, Bill Hudson Kevork Djansezian;Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images(2) After decades of being estranged, Kate Hudson revealed there’s an optimistic path forward with her father Bill Hudson.
Walter Elliot Shapiro was born in Manhattan, New York City, in 1947, raised in Norwalk, Connecticut, and graduated from Brien McMahon High School in 1965. His grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Prussia. Shapiro attended the University of Michigan, where he was an editor of The Michigan Daily; he earned his B.A. in history in 1970.