To: Benjamin Ward Rikers Central Visit Building Dedication page
To excerpts from November 1993 Correction News Dateline issue.
Commissioner's End-of-2011 Message & Medal Day book 2011 look-back photos.
We mourn
Click image
prompts
concerns
for NYC
DOC's
planned
budgeted
new Academy
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:
We Were
There!
2017
5K
Run
Began
in
1979
Explorer
& Foxfire
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Users,
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mourns
passing of
former
Commissioner
Catherine
M.
Abate:
4/20/92
- 3/26/94
at NYC DOC
Medal
of
Valor
Returns
to
DOC
. . .
83
years
Later
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.
Correction
History
web site
mourns the
passing of
Retired ADW
William
Mendoza.
NYC
DOC
uniform
patches,
past
and
current.
of 80+
names in
Jan.1995
Correction
News
Dateline
do you
recognize?
DOC responders
to Nov. 24, 1975
Rikers Island
riot/hostage
siege: Where
was pix taken?
What area,
what jail?
'Welcome
to Rikers
Island,
Mother Teresa!'
*** *** *** ***
Analysis covers 2 decades. Includes 64 images plus PDFs of 24 full pages from 1956 &1957 annual reports.
'When
NYC DOC
Women COs
'Turned Blue'
March,1976
Sept.,1976
Dec.,1976
Richie Basoa's
COBA election slate
newsletters 1976-77
COBA
News
mag
'new'
again
on
web
right for
10/12/2011
salute to
NYCD
Columbia
Assn.
Chaplain
Emeritus
10/18/2011.
Click image
left for
16 'Fond
Farewell,
Father
Charlie'
photos.
Photo #17:
Recruiting
Promo Pix
from a
Generation
Ago
Day recall
72 killed
en route
to Rikers
prison
site in 1932
NYCDOC
9-11 images
in memory
of WTC
attack
Patrick Coffey
& J. B. Brown
retire after
DOC service
totaling 71+
years!
member?
If so,
consider
joining
our NY
Correction
History
FB group.
images
and the
music to
view them
with this
July 4th
weekend
River
Isle
double
hanging
helped
end NY
public
spectacle
extinct?
Hunt on
forDOC
variety.
Look for
tell-tale
pin.
C.O.
McCall's
YouTube
Channel
of great
NYC
DOC
videos.
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For names of Correction History women in animation right, click image. >>>>
CO Motchan Stories
Remembrance:
Motchan Plus
7 Others
NYS COC
aka Welfare Island,
aka Blackwell's Island
Catholic Worker
on Abraham House.
DOCS Commissioners
Electrocutions
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.
35 views
from NYCTV
documentary
185-image
Virtual Tour
of Harlem
Court & Jail
DOC Centennial
2006 newsletter
newsletter
reviews
150 pages
added to
NYCHS
web site
during
2010.
2009 lookback
NYC DOC Prison Keepers graduation
1930 NYC Department of Correction
Prison Keepers Training School Graduation Photo
Olympics'
Committee's
1981 C-71
Reunion
Album:
25 Photos,
Many Names,
Some Tributes
Toulon's
Treasure
Trove of
NYC
Correction
Photos:
100+
images
images
of
1920s
landfilling.
3 versions:
HTML or
PDF or
PPSX (PPT)
reproduction
of March
1982
NYC DOC
newsletter
Inside Out:
all images,
full texts
reproduction
of May
1973
COBA
newsletter
COBA News:
all images,
full texts
Within a Cemetery:
Soldiers' Plot
in Potter's Field
Eileen McHugh, Mike Pettigrass
&
Arcadia Publishing
for acknowledging correctionhistory.org
& its pages devoted to Auburn prison history by John N. Miskell (far right).
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.
1970 Beacon Academy Photo
Looking back
100 Years:
1870 - 1970.
A look at where NYS
Correction facilities
were in 1970
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
Reform School
Ship as SUNY
Maritime
College Ancestor?
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.
Margolis:
NYCHS
Founding
Trustee
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
Sarah Palin,
Geraldine Ferraro
. . .
Katharine Bement Davis?
Mary M. Lilly?
Suffrage & Correction Histories Intersections.
PowerPoint/PDF
12 such murder cases in 70 years: Dec. 18, 1869 thru Dec. 9, 1939
From Ret. ADW Mendoza
RMSC transition team in late '80s.
'Outraged Woman'
1931 staff at Welfare Island female inmates jail.
Mystery photo: When female officers could wear skirts. Click
--->
Mystery photo 2: When Jackie McMickens posed with pipe band at ferry slip. Click
--->
Then CO Toulon Brought Correction Into NYC Classrooms.
right
for details.
Including a "virtual tour" of Elizabethtown old jail.
History conference slide show.
Newgate in NYCW. David Lewis book excerpts
Sketch of 1797 NYC Prison in NYC: Newgate
Lewis' book