Lewis E. Lawes' hard-hitting, best-seller book "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" gets the Hollywood fluff treatment. Lewis E. Lawes was the Warden of Sing Sing prison for 2 decades. The title...

Lewis E. Lawes' hard-hitting, best-seller book "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" gets the Hollywood fluff treatment. Lewis E. Lawes was the Warden of Sing Sing prison for 2 decades. The title of the book comes from the fact that 1,000 inmates were serving an average sentence of 20 years each. The book was based on the Warden's personal experiences; Warner Bros. studio just bought the rights to the title, and created their own fictional story.