Inmate case files from Matteawan and Dannemora state hospitals, [ca. 1880-1960]

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). Dept. of Mental Hygiene.

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For the first fifty years of the State's history, local governments and private agencies were responsible for the care of New York State's mentally ill. In 1836 (Chapter 82), the legislature authorized the construction of the State's first mental health institution, the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, which opened in 1843. By 1890, the State had opened nine additional asylums for the mentally ill. Local governments were responsible for expenses of inmates at these asylums and continu...

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...

New York State Office of Mental Health

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Previously known as the Buffalo State Hospital, the facility became Buffalo Psychiatric Center according to Chapter 558 of the Laws of 1974. From the description of Buffalo Psychiatric Center patient case files, 1920-1975. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 82286416 The original cemetery was started at Willard Asylum for the Insane (as the facility was then called) in 1870. Included in the original cemetery grounds was a Civil War cemetery for patien...

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...

Dannemora State Hospital for Insane Convicts.

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Dannemora State Hospital.

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An 1896 appropriations act (Chapter 949) allocated money for the construction at Dannemora of buildings to accommodate "three hundred insane convicts," the money to be spent under the direction of the superintendent of state prisons. The next year, when continuation of construction was authorized (Laws of 1897, Chapter 395), the name specified to be used for the facility upon completion was the Dannemora State Hospital for Insane Convicts. The hospital, built on the grou...

Central New York Psychiatric Center

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