Hudson Link is thrilled to announce that Dr. Kim Hunter Reed, a noted advocate for increased access to higher education, will serve as the keynote speaker at the organization’s June 7th commencement ceremony at Sing Sing Correctional Facility Read More
SUNY Sullivan 19 Graduates, 19 Honor Cords
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017 Hudson Link celebrated the accomplishments of the most recent class of graduates from SUNY Sullivan’s associate degree program at Sullivan Correctional Facility. Read More
Hudson Link Awards 500th Degree
On June 7th, 2017 Hudson Link celebrated the accomplishments of Sing Sing’s Class of 2017 along with two major program milestones Read More
Up the River: How a College Degree Helps Give Men and Women a Second Chance
For many incarcerated in Ossining, New York’s Sing Sing prison, the freedom granted to them after serving their sentences is illusory: Within three years, 42 percent of New York’s released inmates will find themselves locked up again, or “up the river” — that is, the Hudson River, upon which the prison sits, and from which the saying is derived. Read More
Hope in Sing Sing Prison
Sparkling in the sunlight that inspired 19th-century romantic painters of the Hudson River School, Sing Sing prison’s razor wire, through which inmates can see the flowing river, is almost pretty. Read More
Sing Sing Prison Inmates Urge their Children to Make Positive Life Choices
Ossining program serves an outreach to prisoners’ young family members. “For many of the children in the neighborhood, they look up to us for all the wrong reasons. They look at prison as a rite of passage,” Sing Sing inmate Dario Pena said. Read More