New York State Training School for Girls, 1904 – 1975
In 1904, when the New York House of Refuge for Women in Hudson, NY closed, the New York State Training School for Girls took its...
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Ending Redevelopment – The Women’s Building
NoVo Foundation, the organization that was behind the redevelopment of the former Bayview Correctional Facility made the agonizing decision to end redevelopment. The plan had been to transform the former...
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NoVo Foundation asks, “What should the Women’s Building be?”
Meet the team responsible for developing a hub for women’s rights organizations. In this preliminary meeting, the NoVo Foundation gathered various professionals from different women’s organizations and members of the...
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Deborah Berke Partners to Transform Bayview
On July 8, 2016, Deborah Berke Partners was announced as the winner of the International Design Competition to transform Bayview Correctional Facility into the Women’s Building of NYC. The firm was...
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Reclaiming Bayview
A guiding force for the team behind the Women’s Building is their desire to reclaim the once notorious women’s prison as a kind of sanctuary and safe place for women. This future...
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Bayview Rehabilitation Center | NACC and the Rockefeller Drug Laws
Bayview, a former rehabilitation center and jail that served various populations, has a history tied to drug legislation and policies at the Federal and local level. It provides a window into...
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Nina Bernstein and the ‘mystery’ of Shirley Wilder
In the mid-1990’s, while researching her first book, Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Pantheon, 2001), New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein went to Hudson, NY. There she discovered a treasure...
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Will You Take a Summer Time Trip with Me to the New York State Training School for Girls, Hudson, NY?
Sue Tenerowicz of Hudson, NY shared her grandmother, Bessie Butt’s, photo albums with the Prison Public Memory Project. The first 20 or so pages (before those depicting Boonesville where she was...
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Who Is Training Whom?
The Prison Public Memory Project recently received a note from Frances Drabick, a poet whose mother worked at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in...
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Life at the New York State Training School for Girls: Annotated bibliographies of articles, reports, and books
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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Black Child Savers Along the Hudson
By Geoff K. Ward When Dr. M. E. Ross’s yacht pulled into the Hudson, NY harbor in July of 1936, few likely realized that it carried something other than an...
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The “Ungovernable” Ella Fitzgerald
By Russ Immarigeon On April 10, 1933, according to records at the New York State Archives, Westchester County judge George W. Smyth sentenced a fifteen-year-old “colored” girl named Ella Fitzgerald...
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The Training School For Girls: Punishment or Protection?
In November 1905, Minnie B. Wade, a parole agent for the newly established New York State Training School for Girls located in Hudson, NY, addressed participants at the Sixth Annual...
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