The New York State Training School for Girls, located on a high bluff overlooking the Hudson River, was originally built as the New York House of Refuge for Women, which...
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Incarcerating Girls: A Bibliography of Historical Studies
The historical treatment of girls and young women confined in houses of refuge, reformatories, residential treatment centers, and training schools gets too little attention in reference textbooks on juvenile justice....
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Russ Immarigeon receives fellowship from NY State Archives
Prison Public Memory Project contributor Russ Immarigeon was recently awarded a research fellowship from the New York State Archives in support of his ongoing research into the history of New...
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Delinquent Girls Need to Farm
Fannie French Morse became Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in 1923 and shortly thereafter she began stirring things up. Morse was an advocate of reform,...
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Closure of the Girls Training School
a local perspective… In the few months before its closing on August 18th, 1975, Hudson residents, Training School employees, and elected officials waged a campaign to stop the closure. The...
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