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Displaying 40 Finding Aids
Title
- Department of Correctional Services inmate summary cards
Series Number
- 21833
Summary
- This series consists of summary cards for inmates at various state correctional facilities. This series is not comprehensive. Cards between the 1940s and 1980s are more numerous than cards between the 1890s and 1930s. Cards typically indicate the inmate name, various identification numbers, date of birth, race, crime(s) of which the inmate was convicted, facility(ies) at which the inmate was incarcerated, parole eligibility date, date of actual parole, date of discharge, and date of maximum expiration of sentence.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services. Central Depository
Access Restrictions
- Certain data in the cards is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Law.
Title
- Warden's office files
Series Number
- B0077
Summary
- This series consists of Auburn Prison Warden's central administrative files. Records include correspondence; orders; parole applications; character references for paroled individuals; lists of parole applicants and those that were discharged; and population reports. Records relate to Auburn Prison transfers; the segregation, housing and furlough of incarcerated individuals; family visitation; firearms in the arsenal; volunteer services; the escorting of incarcerated individuals outside the prison; punishments; and personal effects at time of transfer.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- 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.
Title
- Auburn Prison cash accounts ledger
Series Number
- B1237
Summary
- This series consists of a ledger of credits and debits pertaining to cash accounts for incarcerated individuals. For each listing, the ledger records date, type of transaction, and amount of credit deposited or debit charged.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Punishment register
Series Number
- B1223
Summary
- This series consists of a register of offenses and punishments given to individuals incarcerated at Auburn Prison. For each individual, the register includes name; date received; crime; term of sentence; sentencing judge; and date discharged or transferred from Auburn. For each instance of punishment, the register includes date; name of keeper; description and location of offense; name of person giving punishment; and description of punishment.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Executive Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice research, hearing, and study files
Series Number
- 13763
Summary
- The Executive Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice (Liman Commission) investigated prison overcrowding, jury selection reform, sentencing, parole and probation laws and procedures, and criminal justice information management. This series includes memos, correspondence, hearings, commission reports, and research, background, and study files.
Creator
- New York (State). Executive Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Auburn Correctional Facility Incarcerated Individual Case Files
Series Number
- W0006
Summary
- Auburn Correctional Facility, located in Cayuga County, N.Y., is a maximum security correctional facility for incarcerated males. Case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of each incarcerated individual.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- 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.
Title
- Director of Classification Clinic's correspondence
Series Number
- B1681
Summary
- This series consists of outgoing correspondence from the director and staff of the Auburn Prison Classification Clinic to Wardens, the Deputy Commissioner of Corrections, and Directors of Classification clinics at other state prisons. Classification clinics determined the physical and mental conditions of incarcerated individuals. Subjects include statistics on classified groups; lists of incarcerated individuals, with psychological and administrative classifications; classification criteria; psychological testing of incarcerated individuals; incarcerated individuals case histories; Board of Classification meetings; transfers of incarcerated individuals and records; expenses; travel and staff changes.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Coxsackie Correctional Facility incarcerated individual case files
Series Number
- W0061
Summary
- Coxsackie Correctional Facility, located in Greene County, N.Y., is a maximum security correctional facility for incarcerated men. Their case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of those incarcerated.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
- New York State Vocational Institution
- Coxsackie Correctional Facility
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on incarcerated adults 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.
Title
- Auburn Prison register of commutations
Series Number
- B0031
Summary
- This series consists of records of incarcerated individuals discharged after their sentences were "commuted," Entries lists name; county; crime; term; date of sentence; date received at prison; shop incarcerated individual worked in; date of discharge; and remarks. Later volumes court; judge and commutation earned, and prison shop they worked in.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York House of Refuge register of deferred applications for parole
Series Number
- A2068
Summary
- This volume contains summary information about parole applications denied by the Parole Committee. Each entry includes the following: name of incarcerated individual and case number, requested parole date, date eligible to and committee determination. Determination information included: deferred decision, conditional deferral, declined with explanation or declined without reason.
Creator
- House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Auburn Correctional Facility Correctional Volunteer Services office files
Series Number
- B0028
Summary
- This series consists of records of the Coordinator of Volunteer Services, who worked with the Logan Jaycees and the Jaycees Prison Chapter in Auburn. Records include questionnaires of persons touring the facility; articles on prison volunteer programs nationwide; Logan Jaycees monthly newsletter; prison rules and procedures handbook; position papers by Logan Jaycees; list of incarcerated individuals that were discharged; reports of statewide volunteer activities; applications to give music, theater, and dance performances for incarcerated individuals; and proposals from incarcerated individuals to volunteer outside the facility.
Creator
- Auburn Correctional Facility
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Case files of incarcerated individuals discharged by death
Series Number
- B0029
Summary
- These are records of incarcerated individuals who died in Auburn Prison. Case files were kept for all incarcerated individuals, and records of deceased individuals were pulled from the active files and filed together.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on incarcerated adult 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. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- New York House of Refuge building committee minutes
Series Number
- A2059
Summary
- The New York House of Refuge building committee was charged with constructing, equipping and maintaining the Randalls Island facility. Meeting minutes provide information such as estimates for construction; abstracts of bids; bills for expenses; awarding of contracts; names of supply and construction contractors; approval of bills; and progress of construction, based on reports from the architect.
Creator
- House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Minutes of meetings of the Board of Parole
Series Number
- B0076
Summary
- This series consists of meeting minutes of the Parole Board of Auburn Prison and the State Prison for Women. Early minutes include transcriptions of interviews with incarcerated individuals; family relations, prospective employment after parole, and similar matters of interest to the Board. After 1930, minute only list of cases heard. Information includes incarcerated individual's name, consecutive number, date paroled or held, address paroled to or reason held. Some minutes are for hearings on applications for executive clemency. Records are partially restricted.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- Restricted. Some records contain information exempt from disclosure under Public Officers Law Art. 6.Access is pursuant to regulations of the commissioner of correctional services or (for applications for executive clemency) by permission of the governor's office.
Title
- Auburn Prison daily reports of male population
Series Number
- B0062
Summary
- This series consists of statistical records of Auburn prisons' population of incarcerated individuals. Information may include total number: in prison; in prison at morning and in evening; received; discharged; lodgers; applications for treatment; treated; not treated; excused from labor; pardoned; died; sent to other locations; new commitments; transfers from other correctional institutions; returned from parole, courts or escape; released by parole, expiration of sentence or commutation; escaped, condemned; and housed in cells, dormitories, hospital; and at other locations.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Classification Board record cards
Series Number
- B1276
Summary
- Auburn's Classification Board evaluated each individual incarcerated in the prison and decided the appropriate level of administrative custody and rehabilitation program. This series consists of cards with information on those individuals and Classification Board decisions. Many individuals were transferred from Sing Sing Prison. The cards list name and consecutive number, birthdate, color; crime; sentence; probable release date; dates and locations of previous confinements; results of psychological tests and psychiatric examinations; psychiatric and administrative classification. Records are restricted to protect personal privacy.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adults incarcerated in New York's prisons 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.
Title
- New York House of Refuge minutes of the Board of Managers
Series Number
- A2051
Summary
- This series consists of minutes of monthly, annual, and special meetings of the Managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents. Contents typically include resolutions of the board; lists of bills audited by the Executive Committee; lists of committee appointments; amendments to bylaws; summaries of financial reports; appointments of officers and employees; and reports and resolutions of committees.
Creator
- House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Annual reports of Auburn Prison and Prison for Women
Series Number
- B0030
Summary
- This series consists of annual reports submitted by the prison warden to the Commissioner of Correction. The reports include statistical and descriptive information on prison matters such as financial receipts and expenditures; prison labor; incarcerated population; industries; educational and other programs; discipline; maintenance; and administration and operation of the prison.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Work assignment record cards
Series Number
- B1272
Summary
- This series consists of 3" x 5" record cards probably used by Auburn's principal keeper to record locations of incarcerated individual's work assignments within Auburn Prison and at prison work camps. Each card includes name and consecutive number, length of sentence, location of each work assignment, date each work assignment began, date discharged, and method of discharge. Records are restricted to protect personal privacy.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- Restricted to protect personal privacy. Access may be permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the State Archives.
Title
- Commission on Sentencing Reform meeting and public hearing records, subject and correspondence files, and reports
Series Number
- B2541
Summary
- The New York State Commission on Sentencing Reform was created pursuant to Executive Order #10 in March 2007 to review New York's extensive sentencing structure and practices, community supervision, and alternatives to incarceration. The series documents the Commission's hearings, its consultations with experts in the field, and its extensive research.
Creator
- New York (State). Commission on Sentencing Reform
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.