We Changed the System...
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Excerpt from an oral history with Gale Smith, who worked as the assistant superintendent at the NYS Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
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A Home Away From Home
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Excerpt from an oral history with Jennifer Vinson, who was incarcerated at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1970s.
Read MoreA Father Figure
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Excerpt from an oral history with Sylvia Honig, who worked as a social worker at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1960s and 1970s.
Read MoreWhere is Margo Bake?
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Margo Bake was five months pregnant when she arrived at the Hudson Girls' Training School. She ran away in 1949, and now her son is trying to find her.
Read MoreTraining School: Punishment or Protection?
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A parole agent's presentation at a New York conference in 1905 stirs a debate about the Hudson Training School for Girls: Punishment or Protection?
Read MoreDelinquent Girls Need to Farm
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Superintendent 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 MoreGloria's Memories
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In 2012, an envelope addressed to the Prison Public Memory Project was delivered to the Hudson Area Library. Inside were the memories of Gloria Hollenbeck.
Read MoreBearing Witness
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In May of 2011, a box of documents from the New York State Training School for Girls was discovered by Lisa Durfee at a garage sale in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreClosure of the Girls' Training School
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In the few months before its closing in 1975, Hudson, NY residents, Training School employees, and elected officials waged a campaign to stop the closure.
Read MoreThe More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same... Or Do They?
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Echoing a century-old trend, today’s reformers’ are critical of large juvenile prisons and aim to create small, ‘home-like’ environments for confined youth.
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