from front cover of bi-weekly published by Sing Sing inmates 9+ decades ago:
The Star of Hope
Vol. XV No. 15
Dec. 27, 1913
Ossining, N.Y.
Editor-in-Chief:
Inmate
No. 57355.

Warden: James M. Clancy

Principal Keeper: James Connaughton
Click image above for poem by inmate 90 years ago about Christmas tidings 2,000+ years ago.
See also Dec. 1957 NYC DOC newsletter Christmas greetings and stories.

The web resource for NY correction history --- 7000+ files of text & images totaling 460+ Mbs.
New York Correction
History Society
To pursue, preserve and promote
the history of correction services in New York
* Correction * Parole * Probation * Juvenile Justice *
* Alternatives to Incarceration * Transitional Services *
National Parks Service Reconnaissance Study of Lent-Rikers-Smith Homestead

Cattaraugus County Timeline of Executions.

12 such murder cases in 70 years: Dec. 18, 1869 thru Dec. 9, 1939

Foursome of Ticket Firsts:
Sarah Palin,
Geraldine Ferraro
. . . Katharine Bement Davis?
Mary M. Lilly?
Suffrage & Correction Histories Intersections.


Rikers Penitentiary Cornerstone
'Inside Story'.

Remembrance:
Motchan Plus
7 Others


RMSC transition team in late '80s.

1931 staff at Welfare Island female inmates jail.
Mystery photo: When female officers could wear skirts. Click
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Mystery photo 2: When Jackie McMickens posed with pipe band at ferry slip. Click
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When COs gave candy to Rikers daily bus riders. Click image left for details.

Rikers Island
World War II
Honor Roll

Growing on the Rock
Was Fatal
NYS Prison
Shower Bath
Waterboarding
1858 Style?
Click image
right
for details.
Then CO Toulon Brought Correction Into NYC Classrooms.

Click image
right
for details.


Including a "virtual tour" of Elizabethtown old jail.

History conference slide show.
Rediscovering NYS' Mostly Forgotten 1st Penitentiary:
Newgate in NYCW. David Lewis book excerpts

Sketch of 1797 NYC Prison in NYC: Newgate

Lewis' book

DOC Centennial
* - Mogul and Friend.

* - Goord departs DOCS
after 32 yrs, 10 heading it.

* - Goord's good-byes:
To Pataki, DOCS, ASCA

* - Leclaire named Goord successor.

Hope in Place of Prison:
Catholic Worker article on Abraham House

Any clue to era of Hart Island glass slide photo?

A 9-part history.

14 close-up views from Army aerial photo.


2006 newsletter

35 views
from NYCTV
documentary

185-image
Virtual Tour
of Harlem
Court & Jail





Tom Brown diary

Electrocutions
1940 NYS Sheriff Association Convention Journal photos & text


NYCHS presentation at Researching New York

Fine Arts Behind Bars: Painting & Friendship

The Big House -- Auburn
Premiered May 29 on THC

Hanging Executions 1779-1889

Rikers & Welfare Island Prison Photos


Governors Island Prisons
Virtual Tour


1930 Prison Matrons List
Reveals Uneven Pay Standard

Foreword to Anna M. Kross
report on 12 years at DOC
Select archives list & click "go."
"Images of America" book

aka Welfare Island,
aka Blackwell's Island



1936/44 SCOC Standards


Motchan 30th Year
Remembrance


Update on
Lewis Haggins Jr.
Memory Card
Facility Profiles


NYS Commissioners


Captive Spirituality

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E-mail webmaster Thomas C. McCarthy at
nychs2@nyc.rr.com