New York State Department of Correctional Services Bayview Correctional Facility Inmate Case Files

W0008-13: Roughly numerical by DIN number.

Bayview Correctional Facility (1974-2012), located in New York City, was a medium security correctional facility for male and female felons.

This subseries of the general inmate case files series, Series 14610, consists of inmate case files relating to women who were incarcerated in Bayview Correctional Facility. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of inmates. The content of the case files reflects the role of each institution.

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

W0008-93A: This accretion contains a sample of case files for inmates incarcerated during the period 1956-1976, and released from the institution during the period 1974-1976.

W0008-98C: This accretion contains a 2 percent sample of case files for inmates incarcerated during the period 1964-1981 and released from the institution during the period 1976-1981. In addition to the 2 percent sample, files are present for prisoners who received life sentences, sex offenders, inmates who died in custody, and inmates of Asian and Native American ethnicity. There are 184 case files in the accretion.

W0008-08: This accretion contains a 2% sample of case files of inmates incarcerated in Bayview Correctional Facility, the majority of whom were released from 1988-1992. In addition to the sampled case files, prisoners receiving life sentences, sex offenders, inmates who died in custody, and inmates of Asian and Native American ethnicity are included.

W0008-13A: This accretion consists of case files of two female inmates who were released during the period 1978-2005 from Bayview Correctional Facility. The files, which were apparently missing from several previously transferred accretions, appear to be entirely medical in nature.

W0008-21: This accretion documents inmates whose sentences reached maximum expiration dates in 2003-2004. Records only document inmates categorized under specific felony and central monitoring classes: Class A-1, CMC A status; Arson (1st, 2nd); Kidnapping (1st, 2nd); Conspiracy (1st); Coercion (CMC A, class D only).

Folder lists are available at the repository.

The index to series W0008 contains 185 entries. Each entry includes the inmate's name and inmate number and provides a pointer to the location within the records series. The current index only relates to inmates released from the institution during the period 1976-1981.

This series was transferred under RDA 14610 by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

W0008-21: This accretion was transferred under RDA 16112.

W0008 is formally part of Series 14610, Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Inmate Case Files. To improve access, Series 14610 was divided into "W" subseries corresponding to individual correctional facilities.

Summary information on adult inmates 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.