Green Haven and Attica Correctional Facilities inmate case files, [ca. 1930-1979].

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Green Haven and Attica Correctional Facilities inmate case files, [ca. 1930-1979].

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This accretion consists of a 2% sample of case files for inmates released from 1954 through 1978 from Green Haven (5 cu. ft.) and Attica (46 cu. ft.) Correctional Facilities. The records date from the earliest times of incarceration in the 1930s. Native American, Asian, and women prisoners, are represented along with the other special categories of the sample, but there is no breakdown of files by category in either facility.

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New York State Archives

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Attica Correctional Facility

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Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison housing males convicted of felonies who are 21 years of age or older committed directly by the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eight judicial districts of New York . It also receives felons 16 years of age and older by transfer from the Elmira Reception Center or other institutions. A 1926 report of the Crime Commission of New York's Sub-Commission on Penal Institutions stated that the state's prisons were operating at ...

Green Haven Correctional Facility

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New York (State). Department of Correctional Services

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