Auburn Prison Registers of Female Incarcerated Individuals Received
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Overview of the Records
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
1 cubic foot
2 volumes
Arrangement
Numerical by consecutive number.
Scope and Content Note
These are records of females admitted to the Women's Prison at Auburn. Information listed in the registers includes consecutive number; register number; name; date received; crime; sentence; date sentenced; county; court; judge; former trade or occupation; idle or employed when arrested; if married; color; age; weight; height; if literate; habits; number of times previously incarcerated in state prison; to what state prison formerly sent; length of previous sentence; to what county prison formerly sent; crime for which confined in county prison; length of sentence in county prison; and how and when discharged.
There is a gap in the records for May 1918 - Aug. 1928.
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