Going National, Going Global, Staying Local — 2018 Highlights / 2019 Plans
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We’re excited to share some highlights of our work at Prison Public Memory Project from 2018 as well as some of our plans for 2019.
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Rare Prison Records Added to Digital Prison Archive
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We’re pleased to announce the addition of new historical materials to our publicly accessible DIGITAL PRISON ARCHIVE from the House of Refuge for Women, New York’s first ‘reformatory’ for women, located in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreSites of Conscience hosts conversation between Prison Public Memory Project and 'sister project' in Australia
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In 2015, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (SOC) invited Prison Public Memory Project to become a member of their global network of historic sites and memory projects. Since then we have created a close bond with one of SOC’s members in Australia. Recently, SOC invited spokespeople from both member sites to ‘have a conversation’ in writing about their collaboration, to be published in the first 2018 Sites of Conscience newsletter.
Read MorePontiac, Illinois Prison History: Local and Online
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We’re pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource on prison history, a Pontiac Correctional Facility bibliography developed by our 2017 summer intern Sara Millender.
Read MoreWhere We've Been...Where We're Going
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We’re excited to share some highlights of our work at Prison Public Memory Project from 2017 as well as some of our plans for 2018.
Read MorePrison Public Memory Project Launches Digital Prison Archive
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We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new, publicly-accessible digital archive of historically significant prison records from our prison memory sites.
Read MoreNew Book on History of Criminalization of Black Children
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In April 2018, University of North Carolina Press will publish “The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System”, by PPMP scholar-collaborator Tera Agyepong.
Read MorePrison Memory Work Hits The News In Pontiac, Illinois
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Prison Public Memory Project Founder/Director Tracy Huling and summer intern Sarah Millender were interviewed this summer for a front-page article in the Pontiac Daily Leader, the local newspaper in Pontiac, Illinois.
Read MorePress ReleasePRISON: Exhibition, Artists Talks, and Four Evening Programs
Photo exhibition explores prisons, prison communities, families of the incarcerated /
The photographic exhibition "Prison" runs June 24 through July 23 at Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson. During the run of the exhibition, Davis Orton Gallery and the Prison Public Memory Project will co-sponsor four Thursday evening programs on topics related to Hudson, prisons, and incarceration.
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#GivingTuesday Drive Launches Prison Memory Site in America’s Heartland
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On November 29, 2016, we launch a campaign to raise funds to support an exciting new initiative -- the development of a new site of prison memory in the state of Illinois. On #GivingTuesday, please donate to help us get on the Mother Road...
Read MoreInvestigating Prison History: A Virtual Exhibition
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If you missed the June 2016 exhibition in Hudson, NY, you now see the artwork created by Hudson high school students interpreting the history of the NYS Training School for Girls.
Read MoreAnnouncing the Hudson (NY) Prison Memory Project Advisory Committee
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The Hudson Prison Memory Project (HPMP) in Hudson, NY, a member site of the national Prison Public Memory Project, is proud to announce the formation of a community advisory committee.
Read MorePress Release Hudson High School Students Respond to History of Prison in their Town
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"Letters from some distant place" is the culmination of a five-month investigative history workshop at Hudson High School in Hudson, NY.
Read MorePress ReleaseArt, Memory, and Sites of Conscience
Acclaimed Australian Artist Presents Work In Hudson Valley /
Hibberd will share her practice as an interdisciplinary artist working with historical sites of institutionalization and incarceration outside the United States.
Read MoreRuss Immarigeon Selected for 2015 Excellence in Research Award
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The New York State Archives and the Archives Partnership Trust presented this award for Immerigeon's extensive research on the incarceration of women in New York State.
Read MoreHuling and Buckley Receive Joseph F. Wall Alumni Award
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Founder/Director Tracy Huling and Hudson (NY) Site Coordinator Brian Buckley recently received the Grinnell College Joesph F. Wall '41 Alumni Award.
Read MorePress Release: October Event Focuses on street Children in History, Street Children in Hudson
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On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 the Prison Public Memory Project and Hudson Area Library will be hosting an illustrated talk and discussion about “street kids” in history and in Hudson.
Read MorePrison Public Memory Project featured in NEXT CITY Magazine
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In this excerpt from the article, "Redesigning a Prison Town," Huling urges the creation of local ‘sites of prison memory' in communities that host prisons.
Read MorePop-Up Museum Featured in Register-Star
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The Prison Public Memory Project's July 9th pop-up museum was featured in the Register-Star, Hudson, New York's local newspaper.
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