On Monday, August 6th, 2018, Prison Public Memory Project (PPMP) and Hudson Area Library are sponsoring a talk at the Library by Dr. Alexandra Cox, author of a new book, Trapped in A Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People.

Join Davis Orton Gallery and the Prison Public Memory Project at the reception for artists and artist talk for the new photographic exhibition "Prison". 

Artist Lily Hibberd will be presenting her practice as an interdisciplinary artist working with historical sites of institutionalization and incarceration outside the United States. 

“A Night of Celebrating and Reflecting on Hudson’s Black History” through the voices of past and present members of the Shiloh Baptist Church

Author Kristi Gibson will discuss and answer questions from the audience about how images, stories and social policies toward street children shed light on both the lives of poor children and a rapidly changing society.

Emily Hainze, Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University's The Heyman Center, speaks about her collaboration with the Prison Public Memory Project. 

This workshop, led by collaborating scholars Tobi Jacobi and Laura Rogers, is a roundtable discussion and dialogue about how we read and interpret documents from a complex past and what these documents can tell us about the girls who lived at the Hudson Training School nearly a century ago.

Prison Public Memory Project summer intern Liesl Schnabel presents her research on the psychological treatment practices at the New York Training School for Girls between 1904-1925. 

This talk by Geoff Ward, author of The Black Child Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice and Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, will focus on the role of "black child savers" in the movement against Jim Crow juvenile justice in New York State.