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Saturday, September 13, 2025

Born on this day – Lewis E. Lawes:


Lewis E. Lawes


Prison warden

Writer

September 13, 1883 – April 23, 1947


Give vocational training to the manually minded,
and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.
– Lewis E. Lawes.

Credits:

Books:

20,000 Years in Sing Sing; Cell 202, Sing Sing; Invisible Stripes; Life and Death in Sing Sing; Man's Judgment of Death: An Analysis of the Operation and Effect of Capital Punishment Based on Facts, Not on Sentiment; Meet the Murderer!; Sing Sing; Stone and Steel: The Way of...; Strange Stories from Sing Sing; Where Do I Go From Here? The Life Story of a Forger as told to Robert O. Ballou.

Movies and television:

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Invisible Stripes (1939); Kalimat Sharaf (1972); Over the Wall (1938); You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939).