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New York State Reformatory Daily Register of Incarcerated Individuals Received, Transferred, Paroled, and Discharged

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Overview of the Records

Arrangement

Chronological by date of action.

Scope and Content Note

This series is a daily record of changes in the population of incarcerated individuals at the Elmira Reformatory from May 24, 1877 to September 30, 1883. For each day that a change occurs, the volume lists: date; name; consecutive number; and activity (received, transferred, discharged, paroled, pardoned, escaped, deceased, or returned).

At the end of each month, the register provides cumulative totals for the population. These include the total number of incarcerated individuals: received; presently in the population; paroled; transferred to psychiatric institution or state prison; pardoned; deceased; escaped; sentence suspended; discharged; or returned (arrested, voluntarily returned, etc.)

Access Restrictions

Summary information on adult incarcerated individuals 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.

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