Research

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Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series documents Auburn Prison expenditures. Categories include salaries of prison officers, rations, firewood, clothing and bedding, hospital, discharge and transportation of convicts, and repairs. For each expenditure the ledger lists the date of entry, name of individual or company receiving .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

42

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of Auburn Prison's general ledger which functioned as the principal record of final entry for all Auburn's financial transactions. The volume is arranged by accounts according to funds or vendor. The debit entries list date of transaction, description of transaction, and amount .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

43

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of a ledger of credits and debits pertaining to cash accounts for incarcerated individuals. For each listing, the ledger records date, type of transaction, and amount of credit deposited or debit charged..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

44

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of 3" x 5" record cards probably used by Auburn's principal keeper to record locations of incarcerated individual's work assignments within Auburn Prison and at prison work camps. Each card includes name and consecutive number, length of sentence, location of each work assignment, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

45

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of invoices, receipts, and vouchers documenting Auburn Prison purchases of food, equipment, and supplies. For each purchase, the records contain an invoice submitted by the contractor listing the items delivered, date delivered, and price; a receipt from the prison with date items .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

46

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

Auburn's Classification Board evaluated each individual incarcerated in the prison and decided the appropriate level of administrative custody and rehabilitation program. This series consists of cards with information on those individuals and Classification Board decisions. Many individuals were transferred .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

47

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of a receipts and disbursements journal. Accounts relate to receipts and disbursements for women and men state industries, compensation, convict earnings, special funds, capital and regular maintenance and repairs. There are daily amounts and monthly totals..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

48

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of outgoing correspondence from the director and staff of the Auburn Prison Classification Clinic to Wardens, the Deputy Commissioner of Corrections, and Directors of Classification clinics at other state prisons. Classification clinics determined the physical and mental conditions .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

49

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of monthly reports documenting activities of Department of Mental Hygiene staff psychiatrists at Auburn State Prison. Reports give: number of inmates interviewed and receiving individual therapy; number of group therapy sessions; number of inmates in group therapy; number placed .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

50

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of operating and financial reports, apparently created for the State Comptroller's Office, concerning the farming industry operations of Auburn State Prison. Report topics include terms for leasing the Corrigan and Elias Hardy farms, lists of equipment leased, cost schedule, memo .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

51

Creator:

Auburn Prison

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

Foreign-born prisoners accounted for nearly fifty-five percent of the prison population increase in the early twentieth century. Individual facilities gathered detailed information about their foreign-born inmates to document the increase and burden on the state. This series consists of information .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives