![]() ![]() ![]() The Corrections Division is responsible for the staffing and operation of the Livingston County Jail and Courthouse Security. ![]() Our goal is to meet or exceed the Minimum Standards and Regulations set forth by the New York State Commission of Corrections at the least possible cost to the community, all while keeping the people of Livingston County safe." We pride ourselves on maintaining a fiscally prudent correctional setting that offers many programs to better prepare the population to comfortably transition after release. See also our page on researching criminal trial transcripts."At the Livingston County Jail we strive to provide a safe secure facility staffed by highly trained motivated deputies and civilian staff. Suvak, Daniel (1979) Memoirs of American prisons : an annotated bibliography.(2003) Bandits & Bibles: convict literature in nineteenth-century America. Bruce (1982) American prisoners and ex-prisoners, their writings : an annotated bibliography of published works, 1798-1981. Memoirs and other writings by incarcerated writers could also be a good resource for learning about daily life in specific prisions, bibliographies of this genre are available: Monograph reports and prisoner rules and regulations were issued on individual prisons, these can be found in CUNY+ and on Worldcat. These are described in detail in the annual reports. It is however possible to find out more about the conditions and events that happened in individual facilities while that person was incarcerated. While some archival resources are available, it may not be possible to find files on all individuals incarcerated in New York prisons. You can look up a prisoner currently/recently incarcerated in the NYC-DOC system here. The Municipal Archives have many photographs digitally available, search or browse individual jail facilities by name for prisoner identification photographs (mug shots) be sure to search "mugshot" "mug shot" "mugshots" mug shots" as they are variously described as any of those terms.Ī database of NYC prisoners and others buried in the City cemetery on Hart Island, also known as 'Potter's Field' can be found here. The NYC Department of Records and Municipal Archives should have inmate records of NYC-DOC prisoners held in New York City Jails, but they are not listed here. You can lookup a prisoner currently/recently incarcerated in the NY State DOCCS system here. Their genealogy guide offers links to information on historical prison and reformatory inmate case files, some of which have been digitized available through a free account with a NY State zipcode for searching. Some are digitally available, such as Sing Sing Inmate Case Register, the Sing Sing Prison Administration Registers 1865-1939, Photographs of Sing Sing Prison.įor New York State Prisons Records of the Department of Corrections in the New York State Library and Archives. Those records are at the New York State Archives. John Jay Library has digitized photographs of Incarcerated Death Row Prisoners as well as Prisoners incarcerated for lesser crimes at Sing-Sing Prison in the Lewis Lawes Papers, which does not contain any further records on individual prisoners.
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