Inmate case files from multiple institutions, [ca. 1939-1980].

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Inmate case files from multiple institutions, [ca. 1939-1980].

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This accretion contains a 2% sample of case files of inmates released after 1956 from Auburn (57 cu. ft.), Elmira (49 cu. ft.), Fishkill (26 cu. ft.), Great Meadow (5 cu. ft.), and Green Haven (5 cu. ft.) Correctional Facilities. All case files are for male inmates. All Auburn inmates represented in the accretion received life sentences.

142 cu. ft.

New York State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6771133

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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...

Elmira Correctional Facility

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Elmira Correctional Facility is a maximum security institution receiving first offender male felons 21 to 30 years old by direct commitment from the courts. It also receives youths from the Reception Center, usually ages 18 to 20, who have a more serious background, but who show good potential for rehabilitation. Construction of this institution was approved by the legislature in 1871 (Chapter 715), and it opened in 1876 as the New York State Reformatory at Elmira. Elmir...

Fishkill Correctional Facility.

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Great Meadow Correctional Facility

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Green Haven Correctional Facility

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Auburn Correctional Facility

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The Department's Correctional Volunteer Services Program originated as part of the Manpower Development Employee Relations Division of Administrative Services through a federal Law Enforcement Assistance Agency grant in 1971. The program was formally begun in January 1972. From the description of Correctional Volunteer Services office files, 1970-1974. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 78312120 Due to serious overpopulation of Newgate, New York's fi...