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November 17, 2015

We Changed the System...

November 17, 2015/ Brian Buckley
We Changed the System...

Excerpt from an oral history with Gale Smith, who worked as the assistant superintendent at the NYS Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.

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Hudson NY, oral history, Training School for Girls, Hudson Stories 3
Gale Smith, Prison Public Memory Project, Hudson NY, Brian Buckley, Ithaca NY, assistant superintendent, New York State Training School for Girls, Portage WI, Thomas Tunney, Muriel E. Jenkins, oral history, Matthew McCarthy, Grinnell College, digital humanities, Hudson Training School, juvenile justice, cottage system, training school, juvenile detention, delinquency
September 23, 2015

A Home Away From Home

September 23, 2015/ Brian Buckley
A Home Away From Home

Excerpt from an oral history with Jennifer Vinson, who was incarcerated at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1970s.

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Hudson NY, oral history, Training School for Girls, Hudson Stories 3
Jennifer Vinson, Tracy Huling, Schenectady NY, Hudson NY, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, Woodfield Cottage, Valhalla NY, Rikers Island, juvenile detention, youth prisons, Hudson Training School, Girls' Training School, New York State Training School for Girls, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, women in prison, Governor Hugh Carey, Brooklyn NY, maximum-security prison, Prison Public Memory Project
September 12, 2015

A Father Figure

September 12, 2015/ Brian Buckley
A Father Figure

Excerpt from an oral history with Sylvia Honig, who worked as a social worker at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Hudson NY, oral history, Training School for Girls, Hudson Stories 3
Sylvia Honig, Tracy Huling, Wynantskill NY, Hudson NY, Hudson Training School, Girls' Training School, New York State Training School for Girls, Brookwood Center for Boys, Wynantskill Training School for Girls, social work, New York history, juvenile detention, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, Prison Public Memory, Nassau NY, oral history, Hudson Training School for Girls, social worker, Claverack NY, Brian Buckley
August 29, 2015

On the Outskirts of Confinement

August 29, 2015/ Brian Buckley
On the Outskirts of Confinement

John Mason reports on the history of the gatehouse that sits on the edge of the prison grounds in Hudson, NY. 

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August 29, 2015/ Brian Buckley/ Comment /Source
Historical research, Hudson Correctional, Hudson NY, Training School for Girls, Hudson Stories 3
John Mason, Register-Star, Irene Butts, Bessie Butts, gatehouse, Hudson NY, Hudson Correctional Facility, Girls' Training School, New York State Training School for Girls, Hudson Girls Training School, matrons, Suzanne Tenerowicz, Irene Mullins, Michael Mullins, Hudson history, 20th century history, Prison Public Memory Project, House of Refuge for Women, Pete Tenerowicz, Fireman's Home, Prison Memory Project, architectural history, Works Progress Administration
August 23, 2015

If I Could Help Somebody

August 23, 2015/ Brian Buckley
If I Could Help Somebody

Excerpt from an oral history with Mary Hughes, who worked as a 'cottage mother' at the NY Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY for over 25 years.

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August 23, 2015/ Brian Buckley/ 2 Comments
oral history, Hudson NY, Training School for Girls, Hudson Stories 2
Mary Hughes, Brian Buckley, Prison Public Memory, NY Training School for Girls, Division for Youth, oral history, juvenile justice, women in prison, girls' training school, Hudson NY, cottage mother, Columbia County, prison history, juvenile incarceration, Shiloh Baptist Church, Quintin Cross, Training School, New York State Training School for Girls
March 31, 2015

"Please hurry with some word"

March 31, 2015/ Brian Buckley
"Please hurry with some word"

The stories of some of the residents at the New York State Training School for Girls during the 1920s as told by the letters they wrote and received.

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Historical research, Training School for Girls, Hudson NY, Hudson Stories 2
New York State Training School for Girls, Women's History, 1920s history, New York, prison, letters, telegrams, Agnes Talbott, juvenile incarceration, Training School, Lisa Durfee, Tobi Jacobi, women in prison, Stories, incorrigibles
February 26, 2015

A Way Out

February 26, 2015/ Brian Buckley
A Way Out

Excerpt from an oral history with Cedrick Fulton, a resident of Hudson, NY who was incarcerated at the Hudson Correctional Facility in the early 1990s.

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Hudson Correctional, oral history, Hudson NY, Hudson Stories 2
Cedrick Fulton, Hudson Correctional Facility, Tracy Huling, Oneida Correctional Facility, Bear Hill Correctional Facility, Franklin Correctional Facility, Shiloh Baptist Church, Hudson NY, SBK Social Justice Center, Kite's Nest, Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, Are There Flowers in the Dark?, juvenile justice, Warren Street, Division for Youth, black history, Hudson Area Library, prison memory
February 03, 2015

Searching for Ella

February 03, 2015/ Brian Buckley
Searching for Ella

New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.

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February 03, 2015/ Brian Buckley/ 1 Comment
Historical research, Training School for Girls, Hudson NY, Hudson Stories 2
Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder, The Gap in Ella Fitzgerald's Life, Ward of the State, Tracy Huling, New York Times, Prison Public Memory Project, Gloria McFarland, Training School for Girls, Hudson NY, New York State Archives, jazz history, Women's History, Women's House of Refuge, New York State Training School for Girls, Prison Public Memory, David Rosner, Columbia University
January 20, 2015

A Real Family

January 20, 2015/ Brian Buckley
A Real Family

Excerpt from an oral history with Alice Green, Executive Director of the Center for Law & Justice and former employee at the Hudson Girls' Training School.

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oral history, Training School for Girls, Hudson NY, Hudson Stories 2
Dr. Alice Green, Center for Law and Justice, Albany NY, Tracy Huling, oral history, Rose Giallombardo, Nina Bernstein, Barbara Owen, Estelle B Freedman, criminal justice advocacy, social policy, Witherbee NY, Great Migration, New York State Training School for Girls, Hudson NY, Girls' Training School, the racket, prison memory
November 09, 2014

Black Child Savers Along the Hudson

November 09, 2014/ Brian Buckley
Black Child Savers Along the Hudson

The story of how Jane Bolin and the NAACP fought in the 1940s to prohibit public funding of charitable institutions that practiced racial discrimination.

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November 09, 2014/ Brian Buckley/ Comment
Historical research, Training School for Girls, Hudson NY, Hudson Stories 2
Geoff K. Ward, black history, Dr. M. E. Ross, Hudson River, Child Saver Movement, Jim Crow, Judge Jane Bolin, NAACP, New York history, New York City, criminal justice history, African-American history, juvenile justice
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