The New York Correction History Society's web site -- www.correctionhistory.org -- announces the addition of a 33-image, 13-page presentation: "The Earliest Known Graduation and Trainee Class Photos of America's First Correction Academy."

The presentation of the NYC Prison Keepers Training School's 1930 class photos can be accessed by clicking the link line under the NYC Correction Dept. shield icon on the home page, or by going directly to the URL of the presentation's opening page at 
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/museum/gallery/mills/1930classphotomap2.html

Sections of the class photos have been enlarged so that the faces of more than 100 individual participants -- graduates, trainees, instructors, officials -- in the large group scenes can be viewed closer. Anyone with any clue about the identities of any of the graduates, trainees and instructors in the 1930 group photos is invited to send the information to [log in to unmask] 
   
This presentation was made possible through the generous sharing of memories and memorabilia by the granddaughter and grandson of Tombs Head Keeper Terence J. Mills. He served as commanding officer of the DOC Prison Keepers School founded in 1928 by DOC Commissioner Richard C. Patterson, the first such school in the nation. It was the forerunner of all Correction Academies in America. 

Thomas C. McCarthy, general secretary/webmaster, 
New York Correction History Society
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