NY Correction History Society

The web resource for NY correction history --- Some 10,000s files of text & images.

New York Correction
History Society
To pursue, preserve and promote
the history of correction services in New York
* Correction * Parole * Probation * Juvenile Justice *
* Alternatives to Incarceration * Transitional Services *

News story
prompts
concerns
for NYC
DOC's
planned
budgeted
new Academy

Kin Proposes
Memorial
for 72
Victims of
1932 Rikers
Laborers
Boat Blast>

More Rikers Island Missing Mural Mystery!

True
Story:
Pauper
Civil
War
Vet
Hart
Island
Burial

NYC DOC IT's Mile Moreno Memories of 9/11/01

-- 9/11/01 --
NYC DOC:
We Were
There!

C.O. Green

C.O. Fernandez

C.O. Hanberry

C.O. Vernon

Website's ACF bicentennial display spotlights historian John N. Miskell's works.

To list of dozen+ Auburn Prison historian Miskell-related presentations on this website.

3 notorious murders & Auburn's electric chair

To Auburn Prison history quiz based on this website's Miskell-related presentations.

DOC's
2017
5K
Run
Began
in
1979

Click left for 2017 5K video. <---> Click right for story of 1979 start.

Links, Status, Admins, Counts

Leprosy & 1st Rikers inmates: 2 Old Clippings Trigger 'New' Inquiry - Slides Spinoff

'The Unwanted Island of the Unwanted?' PDF version of PowerPt Presentation.

To: C.O. Steffi's Fotos at Celebrate Israel Day Parade

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NYCHS
mourns
passing of
former
Commissioner
Catherine
M.
Abate:
4/20/92
- 3/26/94
at NYC DOC

Silver
Medal
of
Valor
Returns
to
DOC
. . .
83
years
Later

Female
Inmate
Sets
Self
Aflame
in 1875
Harlem
Jail;
Responding
Keeper
Drops
Dead.

"Bill" Mendoza contributed 4 of our web site's "Mystery Photos." He also appeared in 2 others as well, including the original one which began the series.
Click for his In Memoriam page.

The NY
Correction
History
web site
mourns the
passing of
Retired ADW
William
Mendoza.

To: Benjamin Ward Rikers Central Visit Building Dedication page

Remembering former DOC DCPI Sharman Stein

50+
NYC
DOC
uniform
patches,
past
and
current.

How many
of 80+
names in
Jan.1995
Correction
News
Dateline
do you
recognize?

To excerpts from November 1993 Correction News Dateline issue.

Mystery photo of
DOC responders
to Nov. 24, 1975
Rikers Island
riot/hostage
siege: Where
was pix taken?
What area,
what jail?

1912, 1913 & 1916 newspaper & magazine texts telling "stranger than fiction" story.

'Welcome
to Rikers
Island,
Mother Teresa!'

Bklyn House of Detention for Men opened as NYC�s

Click icon left to access how jail built for Bklyn's adult male detainees was diverted to house teens remanded from all 5 boros.
*** *** *** ***
Analysis covers 2 decades. Includes 64 images plus PDFs of 24 full pages from 1956 &1957 annual reports.

'Interim' teen remand shelter. 'Interim' = 12 years.

'When
NYC DOC
Women COs
'Turned Blue'

Black History Month Slide Presentation

COBA newsletter, as typed & duplicated, circa 35 years ago.

March,1976
Sept.,1976
Dec.,1976

Richie Basoa's
COBA election slate
newsletters 1976-77
1966
COBA
News
mag
'new'
again
on
web

Commissioner's End-of-2011 Message & Medal Day book 2011 look-back photos.

NYC DOC Medal Day 2011

booklet In Memoriam list.

DOC 1st Vets Day Parade: 11/11/11.

Warden Roth would have loved it.

Images of DOC 1st Vets Day Parade.

Facebook comments loved it. Read them.

Click image
right for
10/12/2011
salute to
NYCD
Columbia
Assn.
Chaplain
Emeritus x He died
10/18/2011.
Click image
left for
16 'Fond
Farewell,
Father
Charlie'
photos.

DOC Mystery
Photo #17:
Recruiting
Promo Pix
from a
Generation
Ago

This Labor
Day recall
72 killed
en route
to Rikers
prison
site in 1932

2011:
NYCDOC
9-11 images
in memory
of WTC
attack

AMKC COs
Patrick Coffey
& J. B. Brown
retire after
DOC service
totaling 71+
years!

Facebook
member?
If so,
consider
joining
our NY
Correction
History
FB group.

2 dozen+
images
and the
music to
view them
with this
July 4th
weekend

East
River
Isle
double
hanging
helped
end NY
public
spectacle

Dinos
extinct?
Hunt on
forDOC
variety.
Look for
tell-tale
pin.

Visit
C.O.
McCall's
YouTube
Channel
of great
NYC
DOC
videos.

2nd Hart Isle Glass Slide

See slides of 2011 Women's History Month March 24th Rikers Island.

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For names of Correction History women in animation right, click image. >>>>

CO Motchan Stories

Select archives list & click "go."
Remembrance:
Motchan Plus
7 Others

NYS COC

"Images of America"

aka Welfare Island,
aka Blackwell's Island

Catholic Worker
on Abraham House.

Facility Profiles

DOCS Commissioners

Captive Spirituality

Electrocutions
1940 NYS Sheriff Association Convention Journal photos & text

NYCHS presentation at Researching New York
Fine Arts Behind Bars: Painting & Friendship
The Big House -- Auburn
Premiered 5/29/2003 on THC

Hanging Executions 1779-1889
Rikers & Welfare Island Prison Photos

DOC coloring book;
downloadable
versions.

Research Help

35 views
from NYCTV
documentary

185-image
Virtual Tour
of Harlem
Court & Jail

DOC Centennial
2006 newsletter

PDF
newsletter
reviews
150 pages
added to
NYCHS
web site
during
2010.

2009 lookback

xxx

See invitation to, program for 1930
NYC DOC Prison Keepers graduation

1930 NYC Department of Correction
Prison Keepers Training School Graduation Photo

Correction
Olympics'
Committee's
1981 C-71
Reunion
Album:
25 Photos,
Many Names,
Some Tributes

From
Toulon's
Treasure
Trove of
NYC
Correction
Photos:
100+
images

67
images
of
1920s
landfilling.
3 versions:
HTML or
PDF or
PPSX (PPT)

Ex-DOC Dep. Commissioner Turso Honored as DSNY Columbia Assn. 'Man of Year.'

8-page web
reproduction
of March
1982
NYC DOC
newsletter
Inside Out:
all images,
full texts

4-page web
reproduction
of May
1973
COBA
newsletter
COBA News:
all images,
full texts

Above: Click image left for PDF summary. <---> Click image right for detailed web 8-pager.

The Cemetery
Within a Cemetery:
Soldiers' Plot
in Potter's Field

Thank you:
Eileen McHugh, Mike Pettigrass
& Arcadia Publishing
for acknowledging correctionhistory.org
& its pages devoted to Auburn prison history by John N. Miskell (far right).

April 12, 1903 Newspaper Report on NYC DOC Lessons for Abusive Husbands

Meet Al Margolis,
the 'Mench' in DOC
Fiscal 40+ Years
A Rikers Island Employee ID
Card? Yes. Meet George
Rothaizer Who Had One
Lookback at Scenes
on NYC Reformatory's
New Hampton Farms

* - Mogul and Friend.
* - Goord departs DOCS
after 32 yrs, 10 heading it.
* - Goord's good-byes:
To Pataki, DOCS, ASCA
* - Leclaire named Goord successor.

NYS Correction 40-Year Look-back:
1970 Beacon Academy Photo

Looking back
100 Years:
1870 - 1970.
A look at where NYS
Correction facilities
were in 1970

19th Century Correction photos
shown at state fair circa 1970.

Rikers Penitentiary Cornerstone 'Inside Story'.

Another Reason for Thanksgiving in 2009:
That Some People Care.
John Miskell's
Better Than
Hanging

Saluting NY's
Reform School
Ship as SUNY
Maritime
College Ancestor?

Click image above left for PDF summary. <---> Click image above right for detailed web 8-parter.

Clue to Hart glass slide photo?
Fingerprint Update
14 aerial photo close-up views.

Founding NYCHS trustees confer (1999): Then long-time Board of Correction member Barbara Margolis and then NYC DOC First Deputy Commissioner Gary Lanigan.
Click image for Bobbie's Vera obit. Use browser's back button to return.

Barbara
Margolis:
NYCHS
Founding
Trustee
We mourn
our loss.
We
celebrate
her life.

Dr. Dora B. Schriro,
1985 - 1989
Assistant
Commissioner
For Special
Programs,
'Comes Home'
To NYC Dept.
Of Correction:
as Commissioner.

Son Searches
for ID of Mom's
Portrait Painter
Who Was
Fellow Inmate
of Her Uncle
at Dannemora

Rikers Island
Bd./Dept. of Ed.
Schools' 50th
Anniversary
Noted at
Horizon Academy
2009 Graduation

Foursome of Ticket Firsts:
Sarah Palin,
Geraldine Ferraro
. . . Katharine Bement Davis?
Mary M. Lilly?
Suffrage & Correction Histories Intersections.

Pierre Raphael's God Behind Bars:
Rikers Chaplain Reflects on Lord's Prayer

Click image to access excerpts.

Click image for 72-slide

PowerPoint/PDF

2 JATC inmate murals in

DeNiro mess hall. Click.

With NYC Reformatory & NYS Dannemora inmates, Ernest W. Blue cleared woods outside the walls.

Click image to access stories on Ernest W. Blue & Robert Rosenbluth's forestry camps for prisoners.

Cattaraugus County Timeline of Executions.

12 such murder cases in 70 years: Dec. 18, 1869 thru Dec. 9, 1939

From Ret. ADW Mendoza