Delinquent 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?
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The "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.
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