"Was Fatal NYS Prison 'Shower Bath' Punishment Example of
Waterboarding 1858 Style?"
and
"Thar's Historical Gold in Them Thar Jail
Ledgers"
The
Waterboarding 1858 Style? addition is a web page
featuring era text excerpts and images about the 19th Century
prison disciplinary device known as the "shower bath" and its inmate fatality
Dec. 2nd, 1858.
The Them Thar
Jail Ledgers addition is a slide presentation (about Essex County
old jail records) given during the recent Researching New York
2007 conference held at SUNY Albany. Three format versions of the
slide presentation have been posted on the web site: PowerPoint, HTML and PDF.
Each of the two
additions -- Waterboarding 1858 Style? and Them Thar Jail Ledgers
-- has its own access icon near the top (right side) of the NYCHS home
page: www.correctionhistory.org
Tom
McCarthy
NYCHS general
secretary/webmaster