Research

1

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Correction

 

 

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This series consists of 250 files for incarcerated individuals executed for capital crimes. These are not complete case files but administrative files pertinent to their actual executions. Each file typically contains identifying documents; correspondence; blotter records; notices of stays and respites .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

Ossining (N.Y. : Village)

 

 

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Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of case files of incarcerated individuals sentenced to electrocution at Sing Sing Prison. Files contain warrants of execution; investigation reports (personal and criminal history); receipts for, and replies to, notice of appeal (if filed); correspondence regarding writing and visiting .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

4

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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The Statistical Department of Sing Sing Prison compiled a country-by-country list of foreign-born incarcerated individuals containing the following information: consecutive number; age; date of admittance; country; crime; sentence; and disposition. This appears to have been created by the prison administration .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of admission registers (also known as a "receiving blotter") of federally incarcerated individuals admitted to Sing Sing Prison. Entries include the person's name; aliases; date and place of conviction; offense; term of sentence; date of sentence; beginning and expiration date; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

6

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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This series consists of transcriptions of the original tax roll for Union Free School District No. 1, Town of Ossining, Westchester County. The state land involved was Sing Sing Prison. The rolls provide names of taxable residents (by street) and non-residents, type of property (house, store, etc.), .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

7

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of information on each incarcerated individual received at the prison. The early volumes provide information such as: admission date; alias; county from which received; age; birthplace; marital and family status; residence; height; weight; complexion; eye and hair color; other physical .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

8

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of issues of "Star of Hope," a bi-weekly periodical edited and printed by and for the incarcerated individuals at Sing Sing Prison. Issues contain articles on world news, health, and sports. Also included were editorials, fiction, and poetry..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

9

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This volume tracks activity relating to incarcerated individuals who were awaiting execution at Sing Sing Prison. For each person, the log lists dates for the following categories when applicable: awaiting execution; commuted to life sentence; new trial granted; died while awaiting execution; escaped; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

10

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of volumes used to track events relating to incarcerated individuals scheduled for execution at Sing Sing. Logs contain the person's name and consecutive number; county of sentencing and date received; name and address of family; spiritual advisor and attorney; dates of receipt, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

11

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of daily diaries kept by warden W. L. Denno of Sing Sing Prison documenting his official activities. Entries include inspections of site personnel and security protocol; details of visitors to the prison, including police investigators; attempted escapes; misconduct of incarcerated .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

12

Creator:

Sing Sing Prison

 

 

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This series consists of approximately 50 black-and-white photographs related to Sing Sing Prison. Included are images of incarcerated individuals, officials, buildings, cell interiors and exteriors, automobiles, the chapel, prison money, cemetery and the electric chair. Several photos are copies of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

13

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Correctional Services

 

 

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Sing Sing Correctional Facility, located in Westchester County, N.Y., is a maximum-security correctional facility for incarcerated males. Case files include information of the individual's family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

14

Creator:

New York (State). State Commission of Correction

 

 

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This series consists of blueprints of city and county penal facilities prepared by municipal architects and departments of correction and submitted to the State Commission of Prisons for approval. Records include building plans, details, sections, and specifications for police stations, city jails, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives