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Ernest W. Blue & Robert Rosenbluth's forestry camps with NYC Reformatory & NYS Dannemora inmates. (6 pages)

Cattaraugus County Timeline of Executions. 12 such murder cases in 70 years. (14 pages)

Rikers Penitentiary Cornerstone 'Inside Story'.

New York City Correction In Remembrance of Seven Other Uniformed Staffers Before and After C.O. George Motchan

"The Rikers: Their Island, Homes, Cemetery and Early Genealogy in Queens County, NY" by permission of its author, an 11th generation Abraham Rijcken vanLent descendant, Edgar Alan Nutt. (12 pages)

National Parks Service Reconnaissance Study of Lent-Rikers-Smith Homestead

Ledgers of Essex County Jail (Including a "virtual tour" of Elizabethtown old jail). (23 pages)

"Thar's Historical Gold in Them Thar Jail Ledgers" slide show. (43 slides)

NYCHS browses New York State's Archives, Museum, Library correction history photos on-line. (4 pages)

The Words on the Wall: Correctional Officers' Creed.

HTML version of NYC DOC Correction News special centennial issue. Links to PDF versions.

Glenn S. Goord retiring from NYS DOCS after 32 years, 10 of them spent heading the Dept. as its Commissioner. (4 pages)

DOC mystery photo 4: RMSC Transition Team in late '80s

DOC mystery photo 3: Correction Hospital (Welfare Island Women's Jail) 1931 Staff.

Mystery photo 2: When Jackie McMickens posed with pipe band at ferry slip.

Mystery photo: When female officers could wear skirts.

For Whom Did Rikers Island Bell Toll?

NYCHS Virtual Tour of Harlem Prison at Harlem Court:House. (185 images)

The Man Who Was Hanged Twice -- James McLean: Double Murderer, Doubly Hanged.

Captive Spirituality -- Article Excerpts from The Fortune Society News

When COs gave candy to Rikers daily bus riders.

Rikers Island World War II Honor Roll.

Excepts from Rikers Greenhouse Project director James Jiler's book "Doing Times in the Garden."

Was Fatal NYS Prison Shower Bath Waterboarding 1858 Style?

Then CO Toulon Brought Correction Into NYC Classrooms.

Errol D. Toulon's Guide to Basic Report Writing.

Bronx House of Detention eagles: Where headed, landed?

Bronx House of Detention Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation.

Rediscovering NYS' Mostly Forgotten 1st Penitentiary: Newgate in NYCW. David Lewis book excerpts. (8 pages)

Abraham House history. (3 pages)

Catholic Worker article on Abraham House

1940 NYS Sheriff Association Convention Journal photos & text (3 pages)

Ontario County Jail Histories. (9 pages)

A History of Penal and Correctional Institutions in the Rochester Area by Blake F. McKelvey (7 pages)

Friends of Island Academy History (12 pages)

CO James Vann's 'Officer Correct' coloring book, button shield and jacket (20 pages)

Potter's Field vintage photo: When taken is a mystery... Got a clue?

Origins of the Jail System in Westchester County, N. Y. (9 pages)

NYCHS presents virtual tour of 1948 Rikers Island. (15 pages)

Rikers Island images from NYCTV Jails of New York show in "Secrets of New York" series. (35 pages)

NYC Probation Beginnings Timeline

2006 NYCHS newsletter "The Key" in PDF (4 pages)

NYCHS presents Dr. Ron Roizen's brief history of Clinton Prison & his study of its 'inmate-owned' yard patios aka 'the courts.' (19 pages)

North Country Criminal Justice History. (65 pages)
Crimes in North Country History
Public Executions
People v Peggy Facto - 1825
People v Chapleau - 1889
19th Century Crimes
Owen O'Neil - 1874 - Murder Victim?
Clinton Prison & 'Electrical' Executions?
North Country Court Directory
Know the Law List

Governors Island Prisons Virtual Tour (74 pages)
Civil War Era Correction History Menu

Another NYC Isle's Prisons: Fort Jay, Castle Williams. (6 pages)
3 USCT regiments on Rikers & Hart Islands.
Rikers Island's USCT regimental chaplaincy.
Virtual Visit to USCT Memorial.
Rikers & Hart Islands' USCTs in LI Cemetery?
Civil War & Black History Quiz
Meet Rikers Union Army Recruiter Sgt. Barnard C. Gardner. (2 pages)
63 S. Carolinians Who Died in Hart Island's Civil War POW Camp
Rikers &/or Hart Island-connected Union military units.
Rikers Island's Civil War Letters.
Civil War Camp Astor, Rikers Island: Union Army Base. (3 pages)

Sing Sing History Menu

Mystery Photo of Sing Sing Guards Circa 1930s.
Revisit Deadly 1941 Sing Sing Escape.
Sing Sing Guard befriends inmate-artist.
NYCHS presents Dr. Robert L. Gold's Searching Sing Sing for My Father (13 pages)
NYCHS excepts presentation of Mark Gado's Stone Upon Stone: Sing Sing Prison (5 pages)
Ron Arons' "The Jews of Sing Sing" lecture at Temple Emanu-El Judaica Museum (13 pages)
NYCHS excepts presentation of Guy Cheli's Sing Sing Prison (11 pages)
NYCHS' presentation of the NYC and NYS Correctional Career of Lewis E. Lawes (3 pages)
James McGrath Morris' The Rose Man of Sing Sing

The Big House -- Auburn Premiered May 29 on THC
The Citizen front page story on THC Auburn Prison premiere

NYS Correctional Commissioners bio notes

DOCS|Today Facility Profiles
Wyoming - Proud of an identity all its own
Quensboro - Meeting many missions.
Clinton - New York's "Little Siberia"
Albion - "To give (women) moral and religious training"
Elmira - "Nation's first reformatory"
Fishkill - From madhouse to modern correctional facility
Wallkill - Prison without a wall
Collins - Myriad of innovative programs
Wende - Multi-purpose facility
Orleans - Inmate population reflects ‘right-sizing’
Upstate - New concept in disciplinary housing
Taconic - Taking on a life of its own
Otisville - Offering rehab in Mount Hope
Mid-Orange - Aging facility, modern philosophy

Blackwell's Island prison & workhouse From the Begnning to the End in Images book by Judy Berdy and the Roosevelt Island Historical Society
1st: Blackwell's Island. Then: Welfare Island. Now . . . Roosevelt Island (Its Story)
Blackwell's/Welfare/Roosevelt Island Chaplain Chapin's Cards
Roosevelt Island Historical Walking Tour (17 Pages)
Blackwell's Island prison & workhouse in Images of America: Roosevelt Island

WITHIN PRISON WALLS by THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE (THOMAS BROWN, AUBURN #33,333X) "Being a Narrative of Personal Experience During a Week of Voluntary Confinement in the State Prison at Auburn NY" (4 pages)

Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's Auburn Executions: 1890-1916
Auburn&Osborne: Their Role in Correction History
Auburn roots of the NYS fingerprint system
Both Sides of the Wall: Auburn and Its Prison exhibit
Auburn roots of the NYS fingerprint system
8-web page transcription of exhibit brochure.
Windows Within The Wall: The Art of the Auburn Correctional Facility.
The Citizen's feature story on the exhibit.
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'The Bell: Auburn Prison'
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'The Long Watch of Copper John'
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'Medal of Honor Rite at Auburn Inmate Grave'
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'Offering Hope: Auburn Seminary, Prison Connection' (8 pages)
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's Why Auburn?
Link to 278 Auburn images.
Thomas Mott Osborne family papers guide (14 excerpts pages)
Auburn in Alexis de Tocqueville's prisons report (7 excerpts pages)
Before Auburn, de Tocqueville first visited NYC area institutions

Fine Arts Behind Bars: Painting & Friendship
NY Correction Chronicles
1869 NY State Prison Chaplain Reports -- Auburn, Sing Sing, Clinton
NYCHS excepts of Fr. Pierre Raphael's's Inside Rikers Island: A Chaplain's Search for God (13 pages)
Executed at Tombs: Only slave trader ever hanged by U.S.
Rikers’ Unsung Heroes of the 1904 General Slocum Disaster
Correctional Connection of Some NY 'Firsts' -- NYPD's 1st Black officer, NYC DOC's 1st female commissioner, NYC DOC's 1st Black commissioner, & NY Yankees' 1st baseman 'Iron Man'
How NYC Parole Commission Worked
Finding Rikers Island's 'Lost Chapel'
Chapter list for C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 1 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 2 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 3 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 4 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 5 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 6 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 7 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Octogenarian Haswells'1816-60 NY Reminiscences (11 excerpted chapters)
Fulton Correctional Facility 25th Anniversary (7 chapters)
Penitentiaries in the City of New York
Rikers Island Academy
Rikers Islands' Civil War/76 NYSV letter excerpts
Sugar House Prison Window
Eastern NY CF Centennial Book (31 chapters)
Evolution of NY's Prison System (3 parts)
Beauty & the Beast at Ludlow Jail
NYC District Prison System
Bill Twomey's 2-Part Mini-History of Hart Island
NYC DOC Mini-History: 1860s-1940s
The George Motchan Story (10 parts)
Rikers C-76 Aliases (3 parts)
Al Mandanici 50th Anniversary Issue (6 parts)
Hart Island Nike Base History (3 parts)
Now completed: Correctional Association's history
"Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War" (7 excerpted chapters)
NYC Board of Correction Origins
"History of the Office of Sheriff" (17 excerpted chapters)
The "Killer Cop" and the Tombs
Berkshire Farm Archives
Potter's Field Historical Resume Excerpts
Hart Island/Harlem Jail Tour
NYC Dept. of Juvenile Justice -- 1979-1999
"Origins of the NYS Bureau of Identification" (6 chapters of excerpts)
Women's Prison Association -- 150 Years (6 chapters)
NYC’s Suffragist Commissioner: Correction's Katharine Bement Davis (17 chapters in HTML)
NYC’s Suffragist Commissioner: Correction's Katharine Bement Davis (17 chapters in PDF)
NYS DOCS Woodbourne Correctional Facility history (9 chapters)

Timeline on NYS Executions by Hanging -- 1779 to 1889
NYCHS TimeLine
NY Correction Timeline I
NYC Probation Beginnings Timeline
Hart Island Timeline
Retirement fete fliers
In Memoriam list
Timeline on NYS Executions by Hanging -- 1779 to 1889 (10 pages so far)

Rikers & Welfare Island Penitentiary Photos Display Case
NYCHS Virtual Museum
Award-winning photographer Andrew Garn's NY jail & prison images
Return to Raymond St. Jail (26 pages)
Printed Program for 1944 NYC DOC Promotion Execercies
Keeper Webster's 1930 DOC Rule Book
Chief Architect Batka Kept Keeper's Card
Donald Cranston Memorial CCA Cards Collection
Juvenile Justice Exhibition at John Jay College
DOC Jails Exhibition at John Jay College (2 parts)
Rikers & Welfare Island Penitentiary Photos Display Case
NYS Dept. of Correctional Services Training Academy Museum
Correction Captains Association's Captains' Quarterly archives begins with:
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '91 (Vol. I No. 1)
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '91 (Vol. I No. 1).
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Winter, '92 (Vol. I No. 2)
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Winter, '92 (Vol. I No. 2).
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Spring, '92 (Vol. I No. 3).
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Spring, '92 (Vol. I No. 3).
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '92 (Vol. I No. 4).
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '92 (Vol. I No. 4).
Article on CCA from The CPO Family 2nd Quarter 2000 issue.

NYC DOC History Menu
2008 Women's History Month Mystery Photo: Which matrons on 1930 payroll were in 1931 staff picture at Welfare Island female inmate jail? (6 pages)
1930 Prison Matrons List Reveals Uneven Pay Standard. (2 pages)
New York Correction History Society’s February 2008 Black History Month presentation.
A Virtual Tour of 1906 NYC Prison Keepers' Dinner: 30-image, 10-page presentation on 100-year negative.
Jefferson Mkt. Jail Remembered: In the news again and in a new book.
Anna M. Kross's report foreword on 12 years heading DOC.
Rededication at GMDC of C.O. George Motchan Memorial Plaque from KCHPW (19 pages)
Rikers Island Had A Farm: E-I-E-I-O . . . and still does! (4 pages)
Rikers Island Murals.
Harold Lehman's removed . (17 pages)
Ben Shahn's rejected. (3 pages)
Anton Refregier's Rikers Penitentiary WPA mural Home & the Family: puzzle pieces. (31 pages)
Anton Refregier's Rikers Penitentiary WPA mural Home & the Family: NYCTV photographer Peter Bossio images. (11 pages)
Rikers Penitentiary/HDM/JATC murals painted by inmates. (37 pages)
Rikers made-for-movie mural.
Governors Island's Prisons. (6 pages)
Images of America: Roosevelt Island.
Motchan 30th Year Remembrance.
Rikers & Welfare Island Prison Photos.
Earliest Known NYC Prison Keepers Training School Graduation Photo - 1930
1930 Prison Matrons List Reveals Uneven Pay Standard. (2 pages)
The final 'ex' for ex-Staten Island ferry, ex-Rikers floating dorm.
Bd. of Correction's 1st published Minimum Standards for NYC Correctional Facilities (1978). (20 pages)
NYC Women House of Detention programs section in Anna M. Kross' 1954-65 report (3 pages)
Ben Shahn's 1935 rejected Rikers Penitentiary mural
NYCHS excerpts presentation of NYC DOC Jails for the 80S: 5-Year Capital Development (13 pages)
Commissioner Patterson Starts Social Services Bureau in 1929
NYC Inmate Work Release Programs Circa 1969
DOC Commissioners List
Robert J. Wright, DOC's 1st Commissioner (bio note)
Francis J. Lantry, DOC's 2d Commissioner (bio note)
Castle Tombs Commissioner: Thomas W. Hynes (bio)
NYC’s Suffragist Commissioner: Correction's Katharine Bement Davis (17 chapters in HTML)
Commissioner Burdette G. Lewis (bio note)
Commissioner James A. Hamilton (brief bio)
Commissioner Hamilton & Correction's WWI Era Excursions.
Mayor Giuliani climbs into DOC harbor unit history.
Dedicate Harbor Unit boat in memory of C.O. Guy Hudson.
Name Rikers Center in honor of Sam Perry's 40 years. (3 pages)
Silver Jubilee Commissioner: F. A. Wallis (brief bio)
Commissioner Richard C. Patterson (brief bio & 2 related photo pages)
Hero Commissioner: Col. Mickey Marcus (2 bio pages)
40th annual West Point rites honor hero DOC Commissioner Colonel 'Mickey' Marcus
Commissioner Anna M. Kross (bio note)
1st African American Commissioner Benjamin J. Malcolm (bio & obit pages)
1st C.O. Named Commissioner: Jacqueline McMickens
Tombs Complex named for Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik (includes bio)
Commissioner William J. Fraser (bio & link to bio pages on DOC site)
Blackwell's: DOC's first home base. (3 parts)
Hart Island: Civil War through Cold War
WWI era excursions of DOC islands-service steamboat.
Civil War 'US Colored Troops' Trained on Rikers & Hart.
Penitentiary origins in NYC.
Tombs as Halls of Justice in 1838.
Potter's Field Historical Resume Excerpts
1892 Harlem jail a temporarily Women's House of Detention.
Correction Women's History Month Honorees of 1998.
NYC DOC emerged in 1895/96.
1898 City Consolidation did not give DOC 5-boro jurisdiction.
DOC celebrated 5 boroughs' 25th birthday in 1923.
Photos and description of DOC displays at Silver Jubilee exhibition. (2 parts)
Commissioner Wallis' report on the jails in Silver Jubilee journal.
Cartoon poking fun at Correction civilian and uniformed brass.
Photo montage of Greater NYC's first seven mayors.
The first Prison Keepers School in US opened in 1927.
More history of the Academy.
Third Penitentiary opened in 1935.
DOC flag design set in 1998.
NY Correction Timeline I
Overview of DOC
DOC Facilities Map
Rikers Jails
Off-Rikers Jails
DOC's "other bridge" -- Queensboro
Rikers Bridge Opening, Dedication
Rikers Bridge named for Francis R. Buono
Menu of some articles from DOC newsletter archives
Winter 2000 On the Gate takes a glance back at 1999 photos.
Spring 1967 Correction Sidelights feature on Rikers bridge opening.
June 1978 The Pen feature on Francis R. Buono Bridge dedication.
Summer 1968 Correction Sidelights feature on Transportation Division.
Spring 1996 On the Gate feature on the Correction Canine Unit.
Spring 1996 On the Gate feature on then Chief of Dept. Eric M. Taylor.

Lists of archived NYC DOC newsletters at Academy.
List of Sidelights newsletters in archives. (1957-1969)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.1 (521 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.2 (465 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.3 (513 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.4 (514 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 insert front side (427 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 insert reverse side (372 Kb)
Jan.-April '66 issue: DOC welcomes new Commissioner George F. McGrath.
List of The Pen newsletters in archives. (1978-1980)
List of Inside Out newsletters in archives. (1980-1986)
Winter 1984 issue: 1st CO named commissioner: Jacqueline McMickens
List of Correction News newsletters in archives. (1988-1993)
Staff photo and facility correspondents list.
July 1988 Rose M. Singer Center Opens on Rikers Island
Summer 1990 Issue: Dinkins Names Sielaff Commissioner.
Appoint Mitchell, Hopkins; Allen, Eugui, Sinai, Keenan, Brogan, & Bonacum.
Winter 1991 Issue: In Memoriam -- George R. Vierno.
Autumn 1992 Issue: Dinkins swears in Commissioner Abate.
Abate Team: Hopkins, Reese, Colon, DeRosa, Shine, Figueroa, Johnson, Singer, Shapiro.
List of Correction News Dateline newsletters in archives. (1992-1995)

NYCHS - In Memoriam list of line-of-duty deaths
Milton Roth: Psychologist & Warden
John McNamara Dec. 22, 1912 -- Oct. 15, 2004
Virtual visit to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in D.C.
NYS Parole Officers Memorial Dedication
From 1922: The 33rd Name Added to NYS DOCS Memorial Room Wall
In Memoriam for ex-NYS & NYC Correction Cimmissioner Ben Ward [5 pages]
NYC DOC Medal Day 2002 journal 9/11-related excerpts
NYS DOCS 2002 Memorial Ceremony [2 pages]
In Memoriam from 1964 NYC DOC newsletter: Thomas McDonnell
Commissioner Anna M. Kross' In Memoriam Lists: 1954-65
NYC DOC Medal Day journals' In Memoriam lists: 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997
NYC DOC Medal Day 2002 journal "We Remember" deceased members list
Alfred M. Mandanici (April 8, 1922 -- March 19, 2002)
The George Motchan Story (10 parts)
NYS DOCS Memorial Dedicated (3 parts)
Rikers judicial center named for former COBA, CCA head Donald J. Cranston.
Obit & bio of 1st African American Commissioner Benjamin J. Malcolm
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Hart Island History Menu
Potter's Field vintage photo: When taken is a mystery... Got a clue?
"Work of a Correction Officer: City Cemetery" (From December 1978 DOC newsletter).
In Search & Remembrance of Ernest J. Pelton
Interfaith Friends of Potter's Field Memorial Service.
Updated Memory Card for Lewis Haggins Jr., co-founder of Picture The Homeless
Remembrance: Maria Carmela Tartaglione
63 South Carolinians Who Died or Otherwise Escaped Hart Island's Civil War POW Camp
Hart slide show for Culture Conference
Remembering One Who Remembered the Forgotten of Potter's Field -- Sister Anne
Niece's Memory Card for "Aunt Lottie" Maciejewski Cella buried on Hart
Family-created Memory Card for Michael Healy buried on Hart
Going home to Hart: 3 who grew up there as children return (7 pages)
Bill Twomey's Mini-History of Hart Island (2 parts)
Hart Island: Civil War through Cold War
Hart, part of 19th century Dept. of Public Charities and Correction
Civil War 'U.S. Colored Troops' organized, trained on Rikers & Hart
Hart Island: City's Civil War POW Concentration Camp
Brief History of Hart Island Nike Missile Site (3 parts)
1914/15 Hart photos with story on 1898 city consolidation & DOC
Hart tour orientation slide presentation (15 pages)
Hart Island/Harlem Jail tour April, 2000
Hart/Harlem Jail tour photo album April, 2000 (5 pages)
Hart Island Tour June 2000
Hart Island Tour June 2000 photo album (8 pages)
Hart Island remembrance rite
Potter's Field Historical Resume Excerpts

NYCHS presentation at Researching New York historians conference. Slideshow on C. Godfrey Gunther
NYCHS - About Us
Slate of 2004 elected officers.
NYCHS annual meeting electing 2004 slate of officers.
Photo accesses biography links for former Commissioner Fraser, former NYCHS chairman (4 pages)
NYCHS Jan. 22, 2001 annual meeting (2 parts)
Tour of Harlem court & 5th District Prison
June, 2000 tour of historic Hart Island, including Potter's Field
Hart Island/Harlem Jail Tour April, 2000
NYS Senate exhibit honors Correction Suffragist (2 parts)
History Channel Documentary: Prisons
NYCHS meeting plus tour at NYPD museum Feb. 16, 2000
Board of Regents charters NYCHS.
Organizational start-up meeting at Tombs July 13, 1999. (2 parts)
Form to joining NYCHS.
NYCHS Constitution and Bylaws (8 parts).
NYCHS' The Archival Resource That Nearly Wasn't PowerPoint presentation at Researching NY 2002: Perspectives on Empire State History conference.
Slate of 2001 elected officers.
Slate of 1999 - 2000 elected officers.
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 1
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 2
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 3
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 4
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I Special
Correction Artifact Recovery (Liberation) Program

Correction History Quests Hq: Inquiries -- Responses
NYCHS Archival Services
List of archived NYC DOC annual reports

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