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  Papers, 2013 .1 cubic ft. (APAP-347)
  The Steven King Ainsworth Papers contain "Heads Up" bulletins written by Ainsworth for prison inmates sentenced to life, life without parole, and their advocates. The bulletins contain advice for and background information about petitioning the Governor's Office for clemency in the State of California, as well as news clippings of interest. Ainsworth, currently incarcerated in California, was previously sentenced to death and served two decades on Death Row in San Quentin. In 2001 the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California granted Ainsworth's habeas corpus petition vacating his capital sentence. Ainsworth is a published writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a self-taught artist whose work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally. His many publications include Words from the Row and essays or short stories in Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words (2001), Writing for Their Lives: Death Row U.S.A. (2007), and Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America (2014).
  The Bill Babbitt Collection primarily consists of material related to the execution of Bill's brother, Manny Babbitt, in California on May 4, 1999. The collection includes material collected by Bill Babbitt as part of his activism with Murder Victims' Families For Human Rights and the contents of Manny Babbitt's cell at the time of his execution.
  Papers, 1961–2000, 9 cubic ft. (APAP–199)
  Papers, 1985–2003, 25 cubic ft. (APAP–186)
  Includes microfilm of the printed annual reports, 1844–1979; scrapbook, ca. 1915; Board of Directors' files, 1962–1988; subject files, 1962–1980; and prison visit reports, 1974–1980; Narcotics Committee files, 1949, 1962–1972, 1975; Program and Bureau Files, 1967–1983. The Correctional Association of New York was founded in 1844 by John W. Edmonds, President of the Board of Inspectors at Sing Sing Prison. Originally named the Prison Association of New York, the organization was formed to ameliorate the conditions of criminal defendants and prisoners, improve the discipline and administration of local jails and state prisons, and furnish assistance and encouragement to reformed convicts after discharge. It is the only private organization in the state that has the power to conduct on–site examinations of state and local correctional facilities and report its findings and recommendations to governmental authorities. Since 1846, it has been charged with submitting an annual report on prison conditions in New York State to the New York State Assembly.
  Includes bulletins, 1965–81; Dean's reports, 1967–84; student handbooks, 1970–76; budgets, 1979–81; memoranda; published reports; monographs and bibliographies; and proposals for the school.
  EHRMANN, HENRY W. (1908–1995), political scientist
  Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and typescripts from his research on eugenics, public health, and housing. Includes materials pertaining to his research for the book Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe, 1923, and on the Jukes family, 1916–1933; public housing in Buffalo, New York, 1943–1947; crippled children in Buffalo, 1936–1947; anti–venereal disease campaign in New York City, 1920–1936; and the Carrie Buck trial in Virginia, a case of sterilization of the feeble–minded, 1924–1927.
  Collection, 1965–1995, 5.4 cubic ft. (APAP–159)
  Records, 1977–95, 5.01 cu. ft. (UA–690.015)
  Includes Institute of Gerontology records, 1977–81; grants and grant applications, 1978–79; newsletters, 1977–81; conference and seminar materials; training materials, 1973, 1978–95; memos, 1977–82; day files; and workshop videotapes, 1979. Founded in 1968 as the Institute on Aging, part of the College of General Studies. It was renamed the Institute of Gerontology, part of the School of Social Welfare, in 1972. The Ringel Institute of Gerontology was founded in 1982 as a division of the School of Social Welfare that expands knowledge about the process of aging and services for the elderly, facilitates the development of social policies to benefit the elderly, and helps create and improve social institutions to serve the elderly and their families. The Institute is also involved in evaluation of service programs offered by both public and private organizations. Other Institute activities include providing technical assistance about service provision to local communities, co-sponsoring conferences, and facilitating the development of academic curricula on aging.
  Papers, 1982–2000, 11.1 cubic ft. (APAP–108)
  Records, 1993–2005, 29.25 cubic ft. (APAP–205)
  Contains draft of an unpublished book, Criminal Justice in America; correspondence and notes; clippings, pamphlets, and reprints on probation, parole, gambling, criminal identifications, automation, NYS Constitutional Convention of 1967, crime in New York City, the Law Enforcement Act of 1965, and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's speeches, 1959–1973. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1933, and the U. S. Supreme Court Bar in 1959. Lumbard was also an Associate member to several New York Law firms. He served as Chief Counsel of the New York State Commission of Investigation from 1958–1961, and as Special Assistant Counsel for law enforcement for New York Governor Rockefeller from 1961–1967. He also served on several commissions to investigate, combat and control crime.
  RECORDS, 1972-2006, 27.55 cubic ft. (APAP-298)
  Formed in reaction to the Rockefeller Administration's crack-down following the Attica Prison riot, the New York State Coalition For Criminal Justice's primary mission was to reform what it regarded as an excessively harsh criminal justice system in New York. It carried out that mission by lobbying the New York State Legislature and the State departments involved in the criminal justice system. The Coalition sought to bring public pressure for change to bear on the Legislature and State departments by forming inJanuary 1975 a Rapid Communication Network as a mechanism to develop a state wide letter writing campaign. Among the records of the Coalition is documentation relating to its involvement in major issues of criminal justice reform such as the reach of the criminal law, length of sentences set by the legislature, court functions including bail and preventive detention issues, jails, prisons, probation, parole (see the Good Time Survey and initiative of 1981), ex–offenders services, victims, and families of offenders. While a few items in the records date from the early seventies and also cover the period 1985–1986, the overwhelming bulk of the records cover the period 1975–1984.
  Copies of draft reports, testimony at hearings, and other materials pertaining to the work of a special commission appointed by Governor Hugh L. Carey of New York in 1981. Under the chair of Arthur L. Liman and executive direction of Roderick C. Lankler, the commission was charged with reviewing the state's criminal justice system and recommending reforms.
  Includes correspondence, writings, speeches, pamphlets, off prints, clippings, and other materials documenting the life and work of Carleton Simon, a physician turned criminologist. Simon served as Special Deputy Commissioner in charge of the New York City Narcotics Bureau, 1920–26; special advisor to the Will H. Hays Office of Motion Picture Producers of America pertaining to the depiction of crime and criminals in motion pictures, 1928–38; and wrote and spoke extensively throughout his career on crime, drug addiction, street gangs, race, and other subjects of public concern. Includes his unpublished manuscript "Spotting the Junkies" and written evaluations of forty movies and ten plays for the Hays Office.
  Records, 12 cubic ft. (APAP–200)
  Organized in 1974, the Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons was formed to promote greater awareness of the problems of prisons and corrections, improve communication between the prison population and the outside world, and advocate for alternatives to the death penalty. The Coalition was active in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, and Kentucky through the early 1990s. The records are primarily the files of Joe Ingle, co-founder of the Coalition.
  Includes land transactions of Titus as a resident of Locke, Cayuga County, New York, 1832–1850; correspondence kept as warden of Auburn State Prison, including letters from the office of Gov. Horatio Seymour and an undated list of officers and guards at the prison, 1852–1854; and personal and business papers, 1854–1888.
  Papers, 1975–1990, (APAP–213)
  Collected during Von Drehle's writing of Among the Lowest of the Dead, a history of Florida's experience with the death penalty between the Furman decision and 1989. For 11 years, Von Drehle covered Florida's death row for the Miami Herald and the collection consists of a comprehensive record of that period and Florida's experience with the death penalty. The collection includes virtually every relevant newspaper clipping from a Florida newspaper in that period, plus notes from 100-plus interviews, government reports, law review articles, and some ephemera, copies of inmate letters and diaries, transcripts of testimony in major appeals and clemency hearings.