Project components include a traveling exhibition, “Incorrigibles – Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York”, films, an oral history archive, an artist book, and free public events.
Our current project gathers information from archival documents starting with the New York State Training School for Girls (1904-1975). However, we are expanding our research to include all youth detention centers for girls in the United States and recording and sharing accounts of women alive today who were confined in these institutions. In addition, we organize community engagement events with young women and the public to encourage critical analysis around youth detention and behavioral intervention.
Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls and Women of New York | Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY, May 2022 – September 2022
Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls and Women of New York | Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, Brooklyn, October 2018-January 2019
Incorrigibles: Breaking the Cycle of Girls’ Incarceration in New York | In collaboration with Vera Institute of Justice, Irondale Center, Brooklyn, January 2018
Incorrigibles Exhibition and workshops, part of Visions of Confinement: A Lens on Women in the US Prison System | Hunter East Harlem Gallery, June-September 2016
Incorrigibles Exhibition | Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, May 2016
Incorrigibles: A Sociodrama, GirlPower workshop and performance | Hudson Opera House, July- August 2015.
Project Director: Alison Cornyn
Public Historian: Kathleen Hulser
Visual Strategist: Claudine Boeglin
Website Design: Anne Mieth
Web Programming: Joe Kirchhoff
Daily Gazette, ‘I suffered’: Inhabitants of Hudson reformatory school reflect on former facility, By Tiffany Greenwaldt-Simon, July 2024
New York Almanack, Memorial Planned at Graves of Girls at Hudson Correctional Facility, July 2024
The Imprint, ‘Incorrigible’ No More: In Rare Memorial Service, Graveside Tribute Paid to New York’s Formerly Incarcerated Girls, Michael Fitzgerald, July 2024
Imby, ‘Incorrigible’ No More: In Rare Memorial Service, Graveside Tribute Paid to New York’s Formerly Incarcerated Girls, Kim Singletary, July 2024
