Where is Margo Bake?
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Margo Bake was five months pregnant when she arrived at the Hudson Girls' Training School. She ran away in 1949, and now her son is trying to find her.
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People Get a Great Idea and It Doesn't Materialize
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Excerpt from an oral history with David Kinlock, a resident of Albany who was formerly incarcerated at the Hudson Correctional Facility in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreTraining School: Punishment or Protection?
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A parole agent's presentation at a New York conference in 1905 stirs a debate about the Hudson Training School for Girls: Punishment or Protection?
Read MoreDelinquent Girls Need to Farm
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Superintendent Fannie French Morse wrote in 1924 that the girls at Hudson should be able to farm. The training school boys do it, she said—why not girls?
Read MoreThe "Ungovernable" Ella Fitzgerald
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On April 10, 1933, a fifteen-year-old “colored” girl named Ella Fitzgerald was sentenced to the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreSuffer Little Children
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In the 1950s, Marion Palfi, an immigrant photographer and member of the New York Photo League, took photographs of girls at the Hudson Training School.
Read MoreGloria's Memories
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In 2012, an envelope addressed to the Prison Public Memory Project was delivered to the Hudson Area Library. Inside were the memories of Gloria Hollenbeck.
Read MoreNo Place To Go But Up...
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Excerpt from our oral history with Thomas Tunney, Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY from 1964 to 1972.
Read MoreFirst Letter Home
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"Dear Mother," begins Gladys Case's "first letter home," postmarked from the Hudson Girls' Training School three days after Christmas, December 28, 1930.
Read MoreBearing Witness
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In 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.
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