Fingerprint cards, 1901-1950.
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New York (State). Dept. of Correction.
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The Western House of Refuge was established in 1890 (Chapter 238) and operated under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Charities. Jurisdiction was transferred to the Department of Correction when that department was established in 1926 (Chapter 606). In 1923 (Chapter 26), the name of the facility was changed to Albion State Training School. Albion became known as the "Institution for Mentally Defective Delinquent Women" in 1931 (Chapter 546) when the div...
New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
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Bushwick Correctional Facility, located in Brooklyn, New York, was also known as Bushwick Rehabilitation Center and Bushwick Community Based Center. It was administered by the Narcotics Addiction Control Commission under the Office of Mental Hygiene, and served as a work release and general confinement facility from the late 1960s through the middle 1970s. From the description of Bushwick Correctional Facility inmate case files, 1956-1976. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record i...
Matteawan State Hospital (N.Y.)
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Matteawan State Hospital opened in 1892 and was originally designed to house inmates previously held at the State Asylum for Insane Convicts at Auburn. Chapter 525 of the Laws of 1904 mandated that Matteawan provide for the custody and care of: those persons committed by criminal courts or transferred there by the State Commission in Lunacy; convicts declared insane while serving sentences of one year or less for a misdemeanor; and for all female convicts declared insane...
