How Jan Kerouac 'Escaped' the Training School
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The story of how Jan Kerouac, daughter of legendary Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's daughter, escaped the Hudson Training School for Girls.
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The Delaney Report (1915)
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In 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 MoreHappy Childhood, Broken Homes
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Excerpt from our oral history with Karen DePyster, who taught recreation at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreThe More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same... Or Do They?
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Echoing 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 More"She Was Incorrigible..."
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Lisa 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 MoreWhy Is It Important To "Remember"?
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Excerpt 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 MoreNew York State Training School for Girls
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In 1904, the Women's House of Refuge was replaced by the New York State Training School for Girls, a juvenile reform institution in Hudson, NY.
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