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New York State Department of Correctional Services Bushwick Correctional Facility Inmate Case Files

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Overview of the Records

Administrative History

Bushwick Correctional Facility, located in Brooklyn, New York, was also known as Bushwick Rehabilitation Center and Bushwick Community Based Center. It was administered by the Narcotics Addiction Control Commission under the Office of Mental Hygiene, and served as a work release and general confinement facility from the late 1960s through the middle 1970s.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries of the general inmate case files series, Series 14610, consists of 17 inmate case files relating to men who were incarcerated in Bushwick Correctional Facility. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of inmates. The content of the case files reflects the role of each institution.

Beginning with inmates released after 1956, only the following case files categories were transferred to the State Archives: inmates who died in custody, sex offenders, inmates of certain minority ethnic groups, inmates who received life sentences, and a 2% sample of all inmates who were released from any correctional facility. All other case files were destroyed.

W0063-98C: This accretion contains a 13 case files for inmates incarcerated during the period 1964-1981 and released from the institution during the period 1976-1981. Files were selected as part of a 2 percent sample of inmates released from state custody during this time period. Files may also be present for selected groups including prisoners who received life sentences, sex offenders, inmates who died in custody, and inmates of Asian and Native American ethnicity.

W0063-98G: This accretion consists of case files for four inmates released from Bushwick Correctional Facility during 1976. Immediately prior to their transfer to Bushwick, three of the inmates were incarcerated at Taconic Correctional Facility, and one at Tappan Correctional Facility. The inmates had been incarcerated in several different prisons at various times before that, and the records are complete files in each case. One sexual offender's record is included. No records are present for females or inmates of any selected ethnic group.

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Available at Repository

Folder lists are available at the repository.

Online Index

 Personal Name Index The index to series W0063 contains 13 entries. Each entry includes the inmate's name and inmate number and provides a pointer to the location within the records series. Index currently relates only to inmates incarcerated during the period 1964-1981 and released from the institution during the period 1976-1981.

Acquisition Information

W0063 is formally part of Series 14610, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Inmate Case Files. To improve access, Series 14610 was divided into "W" subseries corresponding to individual correctional facilities.

Access Restrictions

Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.