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National Parks Service Reconnaissance Study of Lent-Rikers-Smith Homestead

Ledgers of Essex County Jail (Including a "virtual tour" of Elizabethtown old jail).

Mystery photo 2: When Jackie McMickens posed with pipe band at ferry slip.

Mystery photo: When female officers could wear skirts.

For Whom Did Rikers Island Bell Toll?

Anna M. Kross's report foreword on 12 years heading DOC.

Rikers Missing Murals.
Harold Lehman's removed .
Ben Shahn's rejected.

Governors Island's Prisons. (6 pages)

1930 Prison Matrons List Reveals Uneven Pay Standard. (2 pages)

Images of America: Roosevelt Island.

Motchan 30th Year Remembrance.

Rikers & Welfare Island Prison Photos.

Mystery Photo of Sing Sing Guards Circa 1930s.

NYCHS Virtual Tour of Harlem Prison at Harlem Court:House.

Captive Spirituality -- Article Excerpts from The Fortune Society News

Interfaith Friends of Potter's Field Memorial Service.

Civil War Era Correction History Menu

Another NYC Isle's Prisons: Fort Jay, Castle Williams. (6 pages)
3 USCT regiments on Rikers & Hart Islands.
Rikers Island's USCT regimental chaplaincy.
Virtual Visit to USCT Memorial.
Rikers & Hart Islands' USCTs in LI Cemetery?
Civil War & Black History Quiz
Meet Rikers Union Army Recruiter Sgt. Barnard C. Gardner. (2 pages)
63 S. Carolinians Who Died in Hart Island's Civil War POW Camp
Rikers &/or Hart Island-connected Union military units.
Rikers Island's Civil War Letters.
Civil War Camp Astor, Rikers Island: Union Army Base. (3 pages)

Sing Sing History Menu

Revisit Deadly 1941 Sing Sing Escape.
Sing Sing Guard befriends inmate-artist.
NYCHS presents Dr. Robert L. Gold's Searching Sing Sing for My Father (13 pages)
NYCHS excepts presentation of Mark Gado's Stone Upon Stone: Sing Sing Prison (5 pages)
NYCHS excepts presentation of Guy Cheli's Sing Sing Prison (11 pages)
NYCHS' presentation of the NYC and NYS Correctional Career of Lewis E. Lawes (3 pages)
James McGrath Morris' The Rose Man of Sing Sing

The Big House -- Auburn Premiered May 29 on THC
The Citizen front page story on THC Auburn Prison premiere

NYS Correctional Commissioners bio notes

DOCS|Today Facility Profiles
Wyoming - Proud of an identity all its own
Clinton - New York's "Little Siberia"
Albion - "To give (women) moral and religious training"
Elmira - "Nation's first reformatory"
Fishkill - From madhouse to modern correctional facility
Wallkill - Prison without a wall
Collins - Myriad of innovative programs
Wende - Multi-purpose facility
Orleans - Inmate population reflects ‘right-sizing’
Upstate - New concept in disciplinary housing
Taconic - Taking on a life of its own

1940 NYS Sheriff Association Convention Journal photos & text (3 pages)

North Country Criminal Justice History (65 pages)

Ontario County Jail Histories (9 pages)

Friends of Island Academy History (12 pages)

1st: Blackwell's Island. Then: Welfare Island. Now . . . Roosevelt Island (Its Story)
Blackwell's Island prison & workhouse in Images of America: Roosevelt Island
Blackwell's/Welfare/Roosevelt Island Chaplain Chapin's Cards
Roosevelt Island Historical Walking Tour (17 Pages)

Auburn&Osborne: Their Role in Correction History
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's Auburn Executions: 1890-1916
Auburn roots of the NYS fingerprint system
Both Sides of the Wall: Auburn and Its Prison exhibit
Auburn roots of the NYS fingerprint system
8-web page transcription of exhibit brochure.
Windows Within The Wall: The Art of the Auburn Correctional Facility.
The Citizen's feature story on the exhibit.
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'The Bell: Auburn Prison'
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'The Long Watch of Copper John'
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'Medal of Honor Rite at Auburn Inmate Grave'
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's 'Offering Hope: Auburn Seminary, Prison Connection' (8 pages)
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's Auburn Executions: 1890-1916
Ret. Dept. Superintendent John Miskell's Why Auburn?
Link to 278 Auburn images.
Thomas Mott Osborne family papers guide (14 excerpts pages)
Auburn in Alexis de Tocqueville's prisons report (7 excerpts pages)
Before Auburn, de Tocqueville first visited NYC area institutions

NY Correction Chronicles
1869 NY State Prison Chaplain Reports -- Auburn, Sing Sing, Clinton
NYCHS excepts of Fr. Pierre Raphael's's Inside Rikers Island: A Chaplain's Search for God (13 pages)
NYCHS excepts of Amrhein & Bachorski's Bread & Butter: The Murders of Polly Frisch (12 pages)
Executed at Tombs: Only slave trader ever hanged by U.S.
Rikers’ Unsung Heroes of the 1904 General Slocum Disaster
Correctional Connection of Some NY 'Firsts' -- NYPD's 1st Black officer, NYC DOC's 1st female commissioner, NYC DOC's 1st Black commissioner, & NY Yankees' 1st baseman 'Iron Man'
How NYC Parole Commission Worked
Finding Rikers Island's 'Lost Chapel'
Chapter list for C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 1 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 2 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 3 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 4 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 5 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 6 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Ch. 7 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor
Octogenarian Haswells'1816-60 NY Reminiscences (11 excerpted chapters)
Fulton Correctional Facility 25th Anniversary (7 chapters)
Penitentiaries in the City of New York
Rikers Island Academy
Rikers Islands' Civil War/76 NYSV letter excerpts
Sugar House Prison Window
Eastern NY CF Centennial Book (31 chapters)
Evolution of NY's Prison System (3 parts)
Beauty & the Beast at Ludlow Jail
NYC District Prison System
Bill Twomey's 2-Part Mini-History of Hart Island
NYC DOC Mini-History: 1860s-1940s
The George Motchan Story (10 parts)
Rikers C-76 Aliases (3 parts)
Al Mandanici 50th Anniversary Issue (6 parts)
Hart Island Nike Base History (3 parts)
Now completed: Correctional Association's history
"Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War" (7 excerpted chapters)
NYC Board of Correction Origins
"History of the Office of Sheriff" (17 excerpted chapters)
The "Killer Cop" and the Tombs
Berkshire Farm Archives
Potter's Field Historical Resume Excerpts
Hart Island/Harlem Jail Tour
NYC Dept. of Juvenile Justice -- 1979-1999
"Origins of the NYS Bureau of Identification" (6 chapters of excerpts)
Women's Prison Association -- 150 Years (6 chapters)
NYC’s Suffragist Commissioner: Correction's Katharine Bement Davis (17 chapters in HTML)
NYC’s Suffragist Commissioner: Correction's Katharine Bement Davis (17 chapters in PDF)
NYS DOCS Woodbourne Correctional Facility history (9 chapters)

NYCHS TimeLine
Timeline on NYS Executions by Hanging -- 1779 to 1889 (10 pages so far)
NY Correction Timeline I
NYC Probation Beginnings Timeline
Hart Island Timeline
Retirement fete fliers
In Memoriam list

NYCHS Virtual Museum
Award-winning photographer Andrew Garn's NY jail & prison images
Rikers & Welfare Island Penitentiary Photos Display Case
Return to Raymond St. Jail (26 pages)
Printed Program for 1944 NYC DOC Promotion Execercies
Keeper Webster's 1930 DOC Rule Book
Chief Architect Batka Kept Keeper's Card
Donald Cranston Memorial CCA Cards Collection
Juvenile Justice Exhibition at John Jay College
DOC Jails Exhibition at John Jay College (2 parts)
NYS Dept. of Correctional Services Training Academy Museum
Correction Captains Association's Captains' Quarterly archives begins with:
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '91 (Vol. I No. 1)
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '91 (Vol. I No. 1).
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Winter, '92 (Vol. I No. 2)
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Winter, '92 (Vol. I No. 2).
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Spring, '92 (Vol. I No. 3).
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Spring, '92 (Vol. I No. 3).
CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '92 (Vol. I No. 4).
PDF file of CCA's Captains' Quarterly -- Fall, '92 (Vol. I No. 4).
Article on CCA from The CPO Family 2nd Quarter 2000 issue.

NYC DOC History Menu
Earliest Known NYC Prison Keepers Training School Graduation Photo - 1930
1930 Prison Matrons List Reveals Uneven Pay Standard. (2 pages)
The final 'ex' for ex-Staten Island ferry, ex-Rikers floating dorm.
Bd. of Correction's 1st published Minimum Standards for NYC Correctional Facilities (1978). (20 pages)
NYC Women House of Detention programs section in Anna M. Kross' 1954-65 report (3 pages)
Ben Shahn's 1935 rejected Rikers Penitentiary mural
NYCHS excerpts presentation of NYC DOC Jails for the 80S: 5-Year Capital Development (13 pages)
Commissioner Patterson Starts Social Services Bureau in 1929
NYC Inmate Work Release Programs Circa 1969
DOC Commissioners List
Robert J. Wright, DOC's 1st Commissioner (bio note)
Francis J. Lantry, DOC's 2d Commissioner (bio note)
Castle Tombs Commissioner: Thomas W. Hynes (bio)
NYC’s Suffragist Commissioner: Correction's Katharine Bement Davis (17 chapters in HTML)
Commissioner Burdette G. Lewis (bio note)
Commissioner James A. Hamilton (brief bio)
Commissioner Hamilton & Correction's WWI Era Excursions.
Mayor Giuliani climbs into DOC harbor unit history.
Dedicate Harbor Unit boat in memory of C.O. Guy Hudson.
Name Rikers Center in honor of Sam Perry's 40 years. (3 pages)
Silver Jubilee Commissioner: F. A. Wallis (brief bio)
Commissioner Richard C. Patterson (brief bio & 2 related photo pages)
Hero Commissioner: Col. Mickey Marcus (2 bio pages)
Commissioner Anna M. Kross (bio note)
1st African American Commissioner Benjamin J. Malcolm (bio & obit pages)
1st C.O. Named Commissioner: Jacqueline McMickens
Tombs Complex named for Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik (includes bio)
Commissioner William J. Fraser (bio & link to bio pages on DOC site)
Blackwell's: DOC's first home base. (3 parts)
Hart Island: Civil War through Cold War
WWI era excursions of DOC islands-service steamboat.
Civil War 'US Colored Troops' Trained on Rikers & Hart.
Penitentiary origins in NYC.
Tombs as Halls of Justice in 1838.
Potter's Field Historical Resume Excerpts
1892 Harlem jail a temporarily Women's House of Detention.
Correction Women's History Month Honorees of 1998.
NYC DOC emerged in 1895/96.
1898 City Consolidation did not give DOC 5-boro jurisdiction.
DOC celebrated 5 boroughs' 25th birthday in 1923.
Photos and description of DOC displays at Silver Jubilee exhibition. (2 parts)
Commissioner Wallis' report on the jails in Silver Jubilee journal.
Cartoon poking fun at Correction civilian and uniformed brass.
Photo montage of Greater NYC's first seven mayors.
The first Prison Keepers School in US opened in 1927.
More history of the Academy.
Third Penitentiary opened in 1935.
DOC flag design set in 1998.
NY Correction Timeline I
Overview of DOC
DOC Facilities Map
Rikers Jails
Off-Rikers Jails
DOC's "other bridge" -- Queensboro
Rikers Bridge Opening, Dedication
Rikers Bridge named for Francis R. Buono
Menu of some articles from DOC newsletter archives
Winter 2000 On the Gate takes a glance back at 1999 photos.
Spring 1967 Correction Sidelights feature on Rikers bridge opening.
June 1978 The Pen feature on Francis R. Buono Bridge dedication.
Summer 1968 Correction Sidelights feature on Transportation Division.
Spring 1996 On the Gate feature on the Correction Canine Unit.
Spring 1996 On the Gate feature on then Chief of Dept. Eric M. Taylor.

Lists of archived NYC DOC newsletters at Academy.
List of Sidelights newsletters in archives. (1957-1969)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.1 (521 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.2 (465 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.3 (513 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 Pg.4 (514 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 insert front side (427 Kb)
PDF file of Vol. I No. 1 insert reverse side (372 Kb)
Jan.-April '66 issue: DOC welcomes new Commissioner George F. McGrath.
List of The Pen newsletters in archives. (1978-1980)
List of Inside Out newsletters in archives. (1980-1986)
Winter 1984 issue: 1st CO named commissioner: Jacqueline McMickens
List of Correction News newsletters in archives. (1988-1993)
Staff photo and facility correspondents list.
July 1988 Rose M. Singer Center Opens on Rikers Island
Summer 1990 Issue: Dinkins Names Sielaff Commissioner.
Appoint Mitchell, Hopkins; Allen, Eugui, Sinai, Keenan, Brogan, & Bonacum.
Winter 1991 Issue: In Memoriam -- George R. Vierno.
Autumn 1992 Issue: Dinkins swears in Commissioner Abate.
Abate Team: Hopkins, Reese, Colon, DeRosa, Shine, Figueroa, Johnson, Singer, Shapiro.
List of Correction News Dateline newsletters in archives. (1992-1995)

NYCHS - In Memoriam list of line-of-duty deaths
Milton Roth: Psychologist & Warden
John McNamara Dec. 22, 1912 -- Oct. 15, 2004
Virtual visit to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in D.C.
NYS Parole Officers Memorial Dedication
From 1922: The 33rd Name Added to NYS DOCS Memorial Room Wall
In Memoriam for ex-NYS & NYC Correction Cimmissioner Ben Ward [5 pages]
NYC DOC Medal Day 2002 journal 9/11-related excerpts
NYS DOCS 2002 Memorial Ceremony [2 pages]
In Memoriam from 1964 NYC DOC newsletter: Thomas McDonnell
Commissioner Anna M. Kross' In Memoriam Lists: 1954-65
NYC DOC Medal Day journals' In Memoriam lists: 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997
NYC DOC Medal Day 2002 journal "We Remember" deceased members list
Alfred M. Mandanici (April 8, 1922 -- March 19, 2002)
The George Motchan Story (10 parts)
NYS DOCS Memorial Dedicated (3 parts)
Rikers judicial center named for former COBA, CCA head Donald J. Cranston.
Obit & bio of 1st African American Commissioner Benjamin J. Malcolm

Hart Island History Menu
Interfaith Friends of Potter's Field Memorial Service.
Memory Card for Lewis Haggins Jr., co-founder of Picture The Homeless
Remembrance: Maria Carmela Tartaglione
63 South Carolinians Who Died or Otherwise Escaped Hart Island's Civil War POW Camp
Hart slide show for Culture Conference
Remembering One Who Remembered the Forgotten of Potter's Field -- Sister Anne
Niece's Memory Card for "Aunt Lottie" Maciejewski Cella buried on Hart
Family-created Memory Card for Michael Healy buried on Hart
Going home to Hart: 3 who grew up there as children return (7 pages)
Bill Twomey's Mini-History of Hart Island (2 parts)
Hart Island: Civil War through Cold War
Hart, part of 19th century Dept. of Public Charities and Correction
Civil War 'U.S. Colored Troops' organized, trained on Rikers & Hart
Hart Island: City's Civil War POW Concentration Camp
Brief History of Hart Island Nike Missile Site (3 parts)
1914/15 Hart photos with story on 1898 city consolidation & DOC
Hart tour orientation slide presentation (15 pages)
Hart Island/Harlem Jail tour April, 2000
Hart/Harlem Jail tour photo album April, 2000 (5 pages)
Hart Island Tour June 2000
Hart Island Tour June 2000 photo album (8 pages)
Hart Island remembrance rite
Potter's Field Historical Resume Excerpts

NYCHS - About Us
Slate of 2004 elected officers.
NYCHS annual meeting electing 2004 slate of officers.
Photo accesses biography links for former Commissioner Fraser, former NYCHS chairman (4 pages)
NYCHS Jan. 22, 2001 annual meeting (2 parts)
Tour of Harlem court & 5th District Prison
June, 2000 tour of historic Hart Island, including Potter's Field
Hart Island/Harlem Jail Tour April, 2000
NYS Senate exhibit honors Correction Suffragist (2 parts)
History Channel Documentary: Prisons
NYCHS meeting plus tour at NYPD museum Feb. 16, 2000
Board of Regents charters NYCHS.
Organizational start-up meeting at Tombs July 13, 1999. (2 parts)
Form to joining NYCHS.
NYCHS Constitution and Bylaws (8 parts).
NYCHS' The Archival Resource That Nearly Wasn't PowerPoint presentation at Researching NY 2002: Perspectives on Empire State History conference.
Slate of 2001 elected officers.
Slate of 1999 - 2000 elected officers.
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 1
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 2
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 3
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I No. 4
The Key (PDF) newsletter Vol. I Special
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NYCHS Archival Services
List of archived NYC DOC annual reports

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