Contains prisoner records for 15 prisons in the state of New York.
Records: 294,322
Governors were required by law to keep registers
of all applications for and grants of clemency. This collection
includes images of the registers for recording discharges of convicts
serving in state prisons who had their sentences commuted
and were discharged.
Records: 44,166
Throughout much of the nineteenth century in New
York, the right to vote was denied to anyone convicted of an “infamous
crime,” but citizenship rights could be restored at the governor’s
discretion. This collection includes eight volumes
of restorations to citizenship that New York governors issued to
convicted felons.
Records: 26,125
Newgate Prison was New York’s first state
penitentiary, opening in 1797 on the Hudson River. It was envisioned as a
model prison for reforming those charged with serious crimes other than
murder and arson (which were capital offenses).
The prison closed in 1828, and the remaining prisoners were removed to
Sing Sing Prison.
Records: 5,198
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