In the winter of 1970, Rex Weiner—then a 20-year old college dropout—discovered a bundle of letters in an attic he was renting in Westchester County. The letters were addressed to Faye Owens, an incarcerated resident at the NYS Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY. This is the story of what he did with those letters.
Read MoreThe story of how Jane Bolin and the NAACP fought in the 1940s to prohibit public funding of charitable institutions that practiced racial discrimination.
Read MoreIn 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 MoreThe Prison Public Memory Project uses public history, art, and new media to engage communities in conversation about the roles of prisons in society.
