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

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Overview of the Records

Administrative History

Edgecombe Residential Treatment Facility (formerly Edgecombe Correctional Facility), located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, is a minimum security correctional facility for female inmates and male inmates 18 years of age or older.

Scope and Content Note

Edgecombe Residential Treatment Facility (formerly Edgecombe Correctional Facility), located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, is a minimum security correctional facility for female inmates and male inmates 18 years of age or older. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.

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.

W0067-93A: This accretion contains a sample of case files for inmates incarcerated during the period 1956-1976, and released from the institution during the period 1974-1976.

W0067-98C: This accretion contains a 2 percent sample of case files for inmates incarcerated during the period 1964-1981 and released from the institution during the period 1976-1981. In addition to the 2 percent sample, files are present for prisoners who received life sentences, sex offenders, inmates who died in custody, and inmates of Asian and Native American ethnicity. There are 316 case files in the accretion.

W0067-08: This accretion contains a 2% sample of case files of inmates incarcerated in Edgecombe Correctional Facility, the majority of whom were released from 1988-1992. In addition to the sampled case files, prisoners receiving life sentences, sex offenders, inmates who died in custody, and inmates of Asian and Native American ethnicity are included when available.

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Available at Repository

W0067-93A and W0067-98C: Folder list is available at the repository.

Online Index

 Personal Name Index The index to series W0067 to the Edgecombe Correctional Facility inmate case files includes entries for 311 inmates. Each entry includes the inmate name and identification number. Index currently relates only to inmates incarcerated during the period 1964-1981 and released from the institution during the period 1976-1981.

Processing Information

W0067 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.

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