Report on the Board of Parole and Parole System and the State Prisons and State Reformatories of the State of New York

1927 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
George W. Alger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The State ◽  
Parole System ◽  
State Prisons

Epilogue Mercy, Parole, and the Failed Search for Penal Certainty

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Strange
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
The State ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Capital Cases ◽  
Parole System ◽  
The Revolution

By the Depression, New York had earned a reputation for being the state with the most sophisticated parole system, run according to up-to-date standards of case management, although never up to the standards set by actuarial criminologists. Governors’ involvement in discretionary justice narrowed by the 1930s to the consideration of capital cases, a “lonely business,” according to one office holder. This chapter underlines that even after the state abolished the death penalty it never did away with the prerogative of mercy, an attribute of gubernatorial power as relevant today as it was during the Revolution.

Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Andrea Lynn Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
End Point ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

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