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
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