New York State Industrial School Female Inmate Case History Books A1907

New York State Industrial School Female Inmate Case History Books

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

This series contains basic information about the personal and family background of female inmates in the New York State Industrial School. Types of information may include inmates name, date received, court of commitment, offense, plea, previous arrests, complainant, age, attributes, religion, parole date, division assignments, and reading ability. Information about parents may include name, residence, health, nativity, religion, number of children, and work background.

Creator:

New York (State). State Industrial School

Title:

New York State Industrial School female inmate case history books

Quantity:

2 cubic feet

4 volumes

Inclusive Dates:

1876-1904

Series Number:

A1907

Arrangement

Chronological by admission date; also numerical by inmate number.

Scope and Content Note

These volumes contain basic information about the personal and family background of each inmate. Most of the information was entered at the time of admission and additional information was subsequently entered to describe the inmate's progress or changed status. The first volume contains handwritten, narrative case histories. In the last three volumes, information was entered on a standard printed form.

The following lists the categories of information entered in each case:

1876-1889 (volume 1): 1) Information on Inmate: name, date received, court of commitment, offense, value of property taken (if relevant), complainant, person with whom inmate lived, age, weight, height, eyes, hair, complexion, religion, and reading ability; 2) Information on Parent: name, religion, and work background.

Entries added beginning in 1889 (volumes 2-4): 1) Information on Inmate: plea, character of associates, apparent susceptibility to moral influences (volumes 2-3 only), previous arrests, institutional life, division assignments, date of parole, to whom paroled, relation, address, and comments on recommitments; 2) Information on Parent: residence, nativity, education, habits (temperate, steady), other facts (e.g., health), insanity, epilepsy in family, pecuniary circumstances (volumes 2-3 only), and number of children (volumes 2-3 only).

Newspaper clippings about an inmate or letters from an inmate after her discharge are sometimes interleaved or attached to the pages. More detailed information about each inmate, especially on the circumstances of commitment and parole, is contained in series A1961, Supplementary Case Files for Paroled Female Inmates, 1879-1905.

Alternate Formats Available

A microform use copy of the series is available at the New York State Archives; however, the copy is not available for use because of access restrictions that apply to the records.

Related Material

A3118 Index to case files of female inmates, indexes this series.

Other Finding Aids

Available at Repository

Alphabetical name index in each volume.

Access Restrictions

Restricted in accordance with Executive Law, Section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services).