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Osborne, Thomas Mott
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| Manufacturer and prison reformer, born at Auburn, New York, USA. After selling his family's agricultural machinery firm to International Harvester (1903), and founding the Auburn Citizen (1905), a local newspaper, he devoted himself to Democratic politics on a state and national level. After becoming interested in prison reform he was named warden of Sing Sing (1914–16). For fighting the corrupt New York prison system he was indicted by the Westchester County grand jury on trumped-up charges (1915). The case was dismissed, but he resigned his post soon after to become commanding officer of the US naval prison, Portsmouth, NH (1917–20). He wrote three books on prison reform, as well as international prison studies, and was also devoted to music and drama. |
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