New York State Department of Correctional Services Sing Sing Correctional Facility Incarcerated Individual Case Files

Roughly numerical by DIN number.

Sing Sing Correctional Facility, located in Westchester County, N.Y., is a maximum-security correctional facility for incarcerated males. Case files include information of the individual's family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole.

Beginning with those released after 1956, only the following case file categories were transferred to the State Archives: individuals who died in custody, those who committed sex offenses, men of certain minority ethnic groups, individuals who received life sentences, and a 2% sample of all incarcerated individuals who were released from any correctional facility. All other case files were destroyed.

W0048-05: In addition to the sampled case files, files for individuals who were incarcerated in Attica Correctional Facility at the time of the 1971 uprising and for men of Asian and Native American ethnicity are also included.

W0048-05, W0048-13, W0048-19: Folder lists are available at the repository.

W0048-13, W0048-19: This accretion was transferred under RDA 14610 by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

W0048 is formally part of Series 14610, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Incarcerated Individuals Case Files. To improve access, Series 14610 was divided into "W" subseries corresponding to individual correctional facilities.

Summary information on adult incarcerated individuals is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.