Stories

Read and contribute to stories from our sites of prison memory. Our stories feature historical documents, photographs, oral histories, and more.

August 23, 2015

If I Could Help Somebody

August 23, 2015/

Excerpt from an oral history with Mary Hughes, who worked as a 'cottage mother' at the NY Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY for over 25 years.

March 31, 2015

March 31, 2015/

The 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.

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