"They Are All Ellas..."
/Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald kept secret the cruelest chapter of her own history: her confinement for over a year in a reformatory as an orphaned teenager.
Read MoreJazz singer Ella Fitzgerald kept secret the cruelest chapter of her own history: her confinement for over a year in a reformatory as an orphaned teenager.
Read MoreIn the few months before its closing in 1975, Hudson, NY residents, Training School employees, and elected officials waged a campaign to stop the closure.
Read MoreThe story of how Jan Kerouac, daughter of legendary Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's daughter, escaped the Hudson Training School for Girls.
Read MoreIn 1915, Commissioner of the NY Department of Efficiency and Economy John Delaney released a report condemning the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreExcerpt from our oral history with Karen DePyster, who taught recreation at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreEchoing a century-old trend, today’s reformers’ are critical of large juvenile prisons and aim to create small, ‘home-like’ environments for confined youth.
Read MoreLisa Durfee found these photos, documents, and other 1920s ephemera from the New York State Training School For Girls at a garage sale in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreExcerpt from our oral history with Peter Tenerowicz, lifelong resident of Hudson, NY and a former correctional officer at the Hudson Correctional Facility.
Read MoreExcerpt from our oral history with Mary Allen, who remembers teaching at the Girls' Training School in Hudson, NY and the Brookwood Annex in Claverack, NY.
Read MoreOperated by the State Department for Corrections and Community Supervision, Hudson Correctional Facility is a minimum- and medium-security prison for men.
Read MoreThe Prison Public Memory Project uses public history, art, and new media to engage communities in conversation about the roles of prisons in society.