Prison Public Memory Project summer intern Emma Friedlander reports on the discovery of the 1896 case file for Lillie Patch, a prisoner at the House of Refuge for Women in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreThe stories of some of the residents at the New York State Training School for Girls during the 1920s as told by the letters they wrote and received.
Read MoreNew York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreExcerpt from our oral history with Karen DePyster, who taught recreation at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreLisa Durfee found these photos, documents, and other 1920s ephemera from the New York State Training School For Girls at a garage sale in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreExcerpt from our oral history with Mary Allen, who remembers teaching at the Girls' Training School in Hudson, NY and the Brookwood Annex in Claverack, NY.
Read MoreIn 1904, the Women's House of Refuge was replaced by the New York State Training School for Girls, a juvenile reform institution in Hudson, NY.
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 conditions at the New York House of Refuge for Women as told by an Annual Report filed for the State Legislature by the reformatory's Board of Managers.
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.
