Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission
Title:
Series:
A3025
Dates:
1900-1914
Abstract:
These letters, reports, articles, notes, and government documents provide information about the prison contract labor system for the manufacture of shoes and shirts in other states and countries. The series includes correspondence comparing prison labor to free labor in the shoe industry; questionnaires .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of contracts made by the Prison Agent with individuals and firms for the mining and manufacturing of iron and nails, and the making of barrel hoops, boots and shoes, and other products of prison industry. Included are details concerning the employment of prison labor in these en.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, and printed forms compiled by the office of the warden of Clinton Prison. Records pertain to insurance claims, aliens incarcerated at the prison, arms and munitions, amusements (amateur theatricals and field days), Champlain College, chaplains, contraband, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of vouchers for payment submitted to the Comptroller's Office by officials at Auburn Prison. Expenditures are listed for prison maintenance items such as food, utensils, and clothing, as well as for administrative items such as office supplies. Payments for guards and yard keepers .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Auburn Prison
Abstract:
The series is a daily account of financial transactions taking place at Auburn State Prison. Chapter 169 of the Laws of 1817 required the agent for each state prison to keep a regular and correct account of the monies received and disbursed. This daybook, or journal, is part of the agent's account for .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series contains routine letters to the Comptroller's Office concerning financial matters such as expenditures, appropriations and bonds mostly from Auburn and Sing Sing prisons..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of a time book for prisoner labor in Company No. 6 in the iron ore separator at Clinton State Prison. Listed are the names and numbers of prisoners; their absence or presence each day; and the total number of days worked by each man and by all men for each month. At the end of each .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)
Abstract:
This series consists of minutes of the Board of Prison Inspectors quarterly meetings at Clinton State Prison and monthly reports of the Inspector in Charge. Topics include administration of the prison, such as changes in personnel, the manufacture of iron, and financial accounts. The books also contain .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York State Reformatory (Elmira, N.Y.)
Title:
Series:
B0125
Dates:
1877-1883
Abstract:
This series is a daily record of changes in the population of incarcerated individuals at the Elmira Reformatory from May 24, 1877 to September 30, 1883. For each day that a change occurs, the volume lists: date; name; consecutive number; and activity (received, transferred, discharged, paroled, pardoned, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
Elmira Reformatory
Abstract:
This series consists of a record of nicknames used to identify certain incarcerated individuals..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
11
Creator:
New York State Reformatory (Elmira, N.Y.)
Abstract:
This volume contains entries from February 1, 1923, to January 31, 1924. Reports are listed monthly on fines imposed on incarcerated individuals of an unidentified residential facility, probably Elmira Reformatory. Information is present for the following: consecutive number, name, class (1 or 2, probably .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Abstract:
Upstate Correctional Facility is a maximum security state prison for men in Franklin County, New York. The prison, in Town of Malone, was the first New York State prison built as a supermax prison. Upstate C.F. was established in 1998 to house special prisoners with a history of assaultive behavior. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York State Committee on Sentencing Guidelines
Title:
Series:
14508
Dates:
1983-1986
Abstract:
These files contain correspondence, publications, draft or working documents, unpublished reports, and related material. Correspondence concerns the solicitation of input to the Committee's work, requests for information from the committee, comments on the committee's reports and work, and requests .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Correction
Title:
Series:
A0429
Dates:
1892-1957
Abstract:
Binders contain typewritten opinions of the State's attorney general on questions about the sentencing and confinement of prisoners and other legal issues relating to prisons. Some of the opinions relate to cases of specific prisoners (although names are not always given) and some to general issues. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
A1359
Dates:
1890-1903
Abstract:
This series consists of correspondence from the Comptroller and Deputy Comptroller containing topics such as payments of vouchers for building and expenditures of prisons; land purchases; interest on funds for prisons; and requests for annual financial reports..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Auburn Prison
Abstract:
This series consists of inmates' psychological testing records, primarily the Tree-House-Person drawing test and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale test, but some Rorschach ink-blot pictures responses and Incomplete Sentences test forms, and Mooney Problem Check Lists are included. Files usually .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
Auburn Correctional Facility
Title:
Series:
B0028
Dates:
1970-1974
Abstract:
This series consists of records of the Coordinator of Volunteer Services, who worked with the Logan Jaycees and the Jaycees Prison Chapter in Auburn. Records include questionnaires of persons touring the facility; articles on prison volunteer programs nationwide; Logan Jaycees monthly newsletter; prison .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
18
Creator:
Auburn Prison
Title:
Series:
B0029
Dates:
[circa 1933-1963]
Abstract:
These are records of incarcerated individuals who died in Auburn Prison. Case files were kept for all incarcerated individuals, and records of deceased individuals were pulled from the active files and filed together..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Auburn Prison
Abstract:
This series contains admission reports, hospital reports, medical records, correspondence, examination reports, injury reports, and pharmacy reports generated by the office of the Auburn Prison physician. The medical and record-keeping duties of the physician were spelled out in Chapter 382 of the Laws .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
20
Creator:
Auburn Prison
Title:
Series:
B0053
Dates:
1893-1933
Abstract:
This series consists of records of females admitted to the Women's Prison at Auburn. Information includes consecutive and register numbers; name; date received; crime; sentence; date sentenced; county; court; judge; former trade or occupation; idle or employed when arrested; if married; color; age; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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