The NYCHS is a nonprofit, Regents-chartered historical society whose founders, trustees and members include current and former correctional agency administrators, offficers and civilian personnel as well as equivalent participants from monitoring agencies, inmate-oriented organizations and academia. The society's mission: to pursue, preserve and promote the history of correctional services -- state, city, and county -- in New York.
Mail: c/o Correction Academy, 66-26 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village, NY 11379
(e-mail us at
nychs@nyc.rr.com ) (voice mail -- 718 417 2315) (fax -- 718 417-2326)
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Both Auburn CF Superintendent John Burge (right) and NYCHS' webmaster point to a framed layout of the original prison during an April 2003 NYCHS visit before the Cayuga Museum's unveiling of its "Both Sides of the Wall" exhibit. NYCHS transcribed to this web site the brochure printed for the exhibit that runs through Aug. 31. Other Auburn visit related images in The Long Watch of Cooper John.
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The 2004 slate of officers and trustees for the New York Correction History Society was elected at its annual meeting held Dec. 29th, 2003, in the NYC DOC central office. For a report on the annual meeting, with background notes on NYCHS officers and trustees, click the image below.
Above, NYC DOC & Probation Commissioner Martin F. Horn, left, extends welcome to NYCHS meeting participants.
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NYCHS executive committee member at-large Sheriff Ron Spike of Yates County, left, who served as the president of the NYS Sheriffs' Association 2000-2001, is presented with a plaque signifying his election as a NYSSA life member.The plaque was presented by Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero who succeeded Sheriff Spike as NYSSA president. For more about NYSSA and Sheriffs Spike and Povero, visit the NYCHS presentation of Ontario County Jails History.
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