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History of Newgate - New York's first prison (3157 words) |
 | Newgate opened in 1797 and closed 31 years later when the new Sing Sing prison was ready to take prisoners sentenced out of New York City. |
| Newgate represented a rejection of the approach to crime and punishment that had prevailed in the colonies. |
| Newgate's administrators complained, first, that it was difficult to find contractors and, second, that it made the prison dependent upon them (the failure of a shoemaking contractor in 1819 idled many inmates for months, with no income to the prison). |
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