Tobi 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 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 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.
