The story of a reunion for former employees of the NYS Training School for Girls held in 1981 at a locally owned restaurant in Columbia County, NY and sponsored by the local branch of the NAACP.
Read MoreTobi 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 MoreExcerpt from an oral history with Gale Smith, who worked as the assistant superintendent at the NYS Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreExcerpt from an oral history with Jennifer Vinson, who was incarcerated at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1970s.
Read MoreExcerpt from an oral history with Sylvia Honig, who worked as a social worker at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1960s and 1970s.
Read MoreJohn Mason reports on the history of the gatehouse that sits on the edge of the prison grounds in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreExcerpt 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.
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 MoreNew York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls 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.
