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"New Keeper in Keepers' School Being Taught How to Disarm an Assailant" is this photo's caption in the '30 annual report. |
x | Annual reports by Commissioner Richard C. Patterson included this illustration of how the architects' artist envisioned Rikers Island Penitentiary would look when completed. The high prison wall shown surrounding the entire complex was never built. The three-tier, 240-inmate cell houses without window bars represented a "radical departure" from the five-tier, 500-inmate, barred-window cell houses then typical. |
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"New Keepers in Prison Keepers' School Being Taught First Aid" reads the caption for this DOC '30 annual report photo. |
x | "Inmates Reclaiming Large Quantity of Valuable Land, Municipal Farms, Riker's Island" reads the caption for this DOC '30 annual report photo. |
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In '28, Patterson initiated "Firing School" with ranges on Hart, Welfare and Rikers islands, Brooklyn's Raymond St. jail, the New Hampton reformatory and Manhattan City Prison aka the Tombs (shown here). |
x | A Rikers Island Municipal Farm work gang poses for a photo that appeared in the Department's 1930 annual report. The Commissioner reported the farm "flourishes amazingly, notwithstanding the fact that the soil is not particularly good [being mostly] settled ground made by the garbage dumps . . . full of pieces of glass, tin brick and other articles." |
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