The story of a reunion for former employees of the NYS Training School for Girls held in 1981 at a locally owned restaurant in Columbia County, NY and sponsored by the local branch of the NAACP.
Read MoreTobi Jacobi writes about girls at the Training School in the 1920’s caught in “a tangle of circumstance” as they navigated the everyday challenges of adolescence and the pressures of emerging adulthood alongside charges of incorrigibility and immorality.
Read MoreExcerpt from an oral history with Mary Hughes, who worked as a 'cottage mother' at the NY Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY for over 25 years.
Read MoreSuperintendent Fannie French Morse wrote in 1924 that the girls at Hudson should be able to farm. The training school boys do it, she said—why not girls?
Read MoreThe Prison Public Memory Project uses public history, art, and new media to engage communities in conversation about the roles of prisons in society.
