Elmira Correctional Facility records, 1876-1977.

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Elmira Correctional Facility records, 1876-1977.

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Annual reports, New York State Reformatory at Elmira, 1881-1902; miscellaneous information and a photograph of Mary Dove (1843-1904), a domestic at the Reformatory; and letters of congratulations on the 100th anniversity of the facility, 1976.

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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...