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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.
Beginning with those released after 1956, only the following case file categories were transferred to the State Archives: individuals who died in custody, those who committed sex offenses, men of certain minority ethnic groups, individuals who received life sentences, and a 2% sample of all incarcerated individuals who were released from any correctional facility. All other case files were destroyed.
W0048-05: In addition to the sampled case files, files for individuals who were incarcerated in Attica Correctional Facility at the time of the 1971 uprising and for men of Asian and Native American ethnicity are also included.
The New York State Archives is part of the Office of Cultural Education, an office of the New York State Education Department.
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