The Superintendent of State Prisons was an officer of the New York State government, who was in charge of the administration of the state prisons. The office was created by a constitutional amendment ratified in 1876, to succeed the three statewide elective New York State Prison Inspectors. The Superintendent was appointed to a five-year term by the Governor of New York, and confirmed by the New York Senate.
Austin Lathrop, Superintendent of State Prisons, to-day appointed Omar V. Sage of Catskill Agent and Warden of Sing Sing Prison. ...
The annual report of Cornelius V. Collins, Superintendent, of State Prisons, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1902, was made public to-night. ...
Colonel Joseph F. Scott, former Superintendent of Prisons of New York, died on Dec. 7 at the home of his brother in Denver, Colorado ...
Gov. Sulzer to-day appointed George W. Blake, a New York newspaper writer, Special Commissioner to investigate the management and affairs of all the prisons and reformatories in the State. The Governor yesterday removed Col. Joseph F. Scott from the office of Superintendent of Prisons and nominated Judge John B. Riley of Plattsburg for the place. ...
The defense of State Superintendent of Prisons, John B. Riley, to charges of misconduct in office preferred against him by Governor Whitman, closed today when ex-Senator Edgar Truman Brackett of Saratoga handed to the Governor his brief, urging that the charges be dismissed on the ground that they had been fully disproved by his client. ...
Thomas Mott Osborne of Auburn, N.Y., retired manufacturer, world traveler, lecturer, writer, and prison reformer, has accepted the offer of John B. Riley, State Superintendent of Prisons, of the post of the Warden of Sing Sing Prison. He will take office on Dec. 1, and will relieve ex-Judge George S. Weed, who was temporarily assigned to Sing Sing, when Warden Thomas J. McCormick was ousted on Oct. 30 as the result of the Sullivan scandal.
Charles F. Rattigan, State Superintendent of Prisons, left Albany tonight to make a tour of the State's penal institutions. ...
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William Sulzer was an American lawyer and politician, nicknamed Plain Bill Sulzer. He was the 39th Governor of New York and a long-serving congressman from the same state. He was the first and so far only New York governor to be impeached. He broke with his sponsors at Tammany Hall, and they produced convincing evidence that Sulzer had falsified his sworn statement of campaign expenditures.
Thomas Mott Osborne was an American prison administrator, prison reformer, industrialist and New York State political reformer. In an assessment of Osborne's life, a New York Times book reviewer wrote: "His career as a penologist was short, but in the interval of the few years he served he succeeded in revolutionizing American prison reform, if not always in fact, then in awakening responsibility.... He was made of the spectacular stuff of martyrs, to many people perhaps ridiculous, but to those whose lives his theories most closely touched, inspiring and often godlike."
Lewis Edward Lawes was a prison warden and a proponent of prison reform. During his 21-year tenure at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, he supervised the executions of 303 prisoners.
Denver Sylvester Dickerson was an American politician. He was the 11th Governor of Nevada from 1908 to 1911. A member of the Silver – Democratic coalition party, he had previously held office as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1907 to 1908. During his governorship, Dickerson worked to reform the state prison system.
Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison on State Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It was built on land that was once a Cayuga village. It is classified as a maximum security facility.
Robert John Kirby was the Warden of Sing Sing prison from 1941 until 1944. Highly regarded for his integrity, Kirby brought respect back to the administration of Sing Sing, and order to the prison after the often controversial tenure of Lewis Lawes.
The warden or governor, also known as a superintendent or director, is the official who is in charge of a prison.
Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, near La Grange, and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. It opened in 1940 to replace the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort after a flood damaged the original property. The current (2020) capacity of KSR is 1053 inmates.
Brian S. Fischer was the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, the fourth largest state prison system in the United States. He was appointed by former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer in 2007 and retired in 2013. He was previously superintendent of Sing Sing Prison. He has spent his entire career in the Correctional Services department since receiving his B.S. in Psychology from Upsala College in 1966 and an M.S. from the University of Bridgeport in 1968.
The Inspector of State Prisons was a statewide elective office created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. At the 1847 New York state election, three Inspectors were elected and then, upon taking office, so classified that henceforth every year one Inspector would be elected to a three-year term. The Prison Inspectors appointed wardens and keepers and supervised the prison administration in general. They were required to visit jointly four times a year each one of the state prisons. Besides, each one of the Inspectors was allotted the special care to one of the then existing three state prisons where he had to attend to business for at least one week per month.
Benjamin S. W. Clark was an American merchant and politician from New York. He was the first New York State Superintendent of Public Works.
David B. McNeil was an American politician from New York.
Rodney Rufus Crowley was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a New York Inspector of State Prisons from 1876 to 1877.
Robert H. Anderson was an American politician from New York.
James M. Clancy was the Warden of Sing Sing prison during the July 1913 fire.
John E. Gerin M.D. was the physician at Auburn State Prison in Auburn, New York under warden George W. Benham. Gerin performed the autopsy on Leon Czolgosz.
The Wardens of Sing Sing are appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Colonel Omar Van Leuven Sage was the Warden of Sing Sing from 1894 to 1899.
George Standish Weed was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Colonel Joseph F. Scott was the New York Superintendent of State Prisons until 1913. He was president of the National Prison Association.