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See 'New York's Boldest' video on YouTube (produced by C.O. Nishaun McCall, Sr.)


1931 staff at Welfare Island female inmates jail.
2008 Women's History Month Mystery Photo: Which matrons on 1930 payroll were in 1931 staff picture at Welfare Island female inmate jail?


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2007 Black History Month note: Before the Guardians, NYC DOC had the Correctionnaires.
When COs gave candy to Rikers daily bus riders. Click image left for details.

Rikers Island
World War II
Honor Roll

Then CO Toulon Brought Correction Into NYC Classrooms.

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

30-image, 10-page presentation on 100-year negative,
photo of NYC correction keepers annual dinner

40th annual
'Mickey' Marcus
West Point
rites May 21
JEFFERSON MKT. JAIL REMEMBERED
In the news again and in a new book. Click image right for details.

35 NYCHS
views from
NYCTV
documentary
Click the above for 4 pages & 40+ images tracing 300+ years of the growing OF Rikers Island and the growing ON Rikers Island.


AMK report foreword on
12 years as commissioner

For Whom
Did It Toll?
Sing Sing
guard
befriends
inmate artist
who had been
non-participant
but pivotal
figure in 1932
riot at NYC
Penitentiary
on Welfare
Island

1930
Prison
Matrons
List
Reveals
Uneven
Pay
Standard
Harold Lehman's mural removed.

Ben Shahn's mural rejected.


Anton Refregier's WPA mural Home & Family.
30 NYCHS images - 10 NYCTV images

Inmate murals
in corridors.

Movie set's mural of a "tiled" wall.
Can you name film?

Historic Katrina Counterflow: NYC DOCers Aid to Louisiana Dept. of Corrections
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Earliest Known
NYC Prison Keepers Training School Graduation Photo
- 1930
The final 'ex' for ex-Staten Island ferry, ex-Rikers floating dorm.

1972 Municipal Engineer article
Rikers: Past, Present, Future

A 1980 NYC DOC report
-- Jails for the 80s

Bd. of Correction's 1st Minimum
Standards for NYC Jails (1978)

1st C.O. to become Commissioner:
Jacqueline McMickens

Kings County Penitentiary
& a Murderess' Pardon

Commissioner Patterson Starts
Social Services Bureau in 1929

Commissioner Marcus
Playground Gets Facelift

25th Anniversary look-back
at 1st Rikers Romp.

9/11-related excerpts:
Medal Day 2002 journal

NYC DOC convicts at Dannemora (circa 1969)
(In HTML format) or (In Acrobat PDF 223Kb)

Correction's Pipe Band
historical notes
Commissioners:
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* Due to various causes, including inmate population declines, James A. Thomas Center and West Facility (except for the Contagious Disease Unit) on Rikers have been placed on reserve status as have the Brooklyn and Queens Houses of Detention. They are closed to inmate housing but remain DOC facilities. The Bronx House of Detention, Brooklyn Correctional Facility and the 6-bed terminal care unit in Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Roosevelt Island have been completely discontinued and are no longer part of DOC.

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