Prison Public Memory Project intern Emma Friedlander reports on the remarkable story of a group of sisters and their effort to understand the complicated life of their grandmother, Hilda Cornell.
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 MoreOpened in 1887, the New York State House of Refuge for Women in Hudson, NY was only the second reformatory for women established by law in the U.S.
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.
