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 *

Hail to the Chief! More than stars on collar and ribbons on chest, C.O. Ralph E. Smith's photo of Chief of Dept. Robert N. Davoren shows feelings of NYC DOC's top uniformed officer on retirement after 35 years. Click stars image to see photo.

185-image Virtual Tour of Harlem Court & Jail

Click the above composite Rikers Island farm image for 4 pages & 40+ images tracing 300+ years of the growing OF Rikers Island and the growing ON Rikers Island.

The Jews of Sing Sing Click title for more on Ron Arons' lecture Tuesday, April 25 at Temple Emanu-El of NYC sponsored by its Ivan M. Stettenheim Library and Herbert & Eileen Bernard Judaica Museum. Arts & Identity Series. 6:30 pm. Enter its Community House, 1 E. 65th St. Free. Open to public.

2006 newsletter

Anton Refregier's WPA mural Home & Family. 30 NYCHS images10 NYC-TV images	Inmate murals in corridors.	Movie set's mural of a "tiled" wall. Can you name film?

NYCHS presentation at Researching New York Searching Sing Sing for My Father

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 newsletter lists Sidelights The Pen Inside Out Correction News C.N. Dateline Select archives list & click "go."

"Images of America" book aka Welfare Island, aka Blackwell's Island

1936/44 SCOC Standards

Motchan 30th Year Remembrance Interfaith Friends of Potter's Field Memorial Service

Facility Profiles NYS Commissioners Captive Spirituality

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