Scope and Contents From the Series:

The clippings series contains articles on crime, criminology, prisons, and penology of general interest to and collected by Gill throughout his career.

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The clippings series contains articles on crime, criminology, prisons, and penology of general interest to and collected by Gill throughout his career.

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The clippings series contains articles on crime, criminology, prisons, and penology of general interest to and collected by Gill throughout his career.

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains the records of Gill’s consulting projects, which span his working years. Formats include clippings, correspondence, memos, project proposals, reports and report drafts, and surveys and survey statistics. Original order has been preserved where possible to reflect Gill’s working method.

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Artifacts consists of items that would have been found in Gill's offices. Artifacts related to Gill’s tenure at the Norfolk Prison Colony are listed with the Norfolk Prison Colony records.

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Artifacts consists of items that would have been found in Gill's offices. Artifacts related to Gill’s tenure at the Norfolk Prison Colony are listed with the Norfolk Prison Colony records.

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Artifacts consists of items that would have been found in Gill's offices. Artifacts related to Gill’s tenure at the Norfolk Prison Colony are listed with the Norfolk Prison Colony records.

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The Norfolk photographs subseries contains four photo albums (circa 1927-1934) documenting the construction of the State Prison Colony as well as the daily activities and recreation of inmates and staff.

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The Norfolk photographs subseries contains four photo albums (circa 1927-1934) documenting the construction of the State Prison Colony as well as the daily activities and recreation of inmates and staff.

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The Norfolk photographs subseries contains four photo albums (circa 1927-1934) documenting the construction of the State Prison Colony as well as the daily activities and recreation of inmates and staff.

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The Norfolk photographs subseries contains four photo albums (circa 1927-1934) documenting the construction of the State Prison Colony as well as the daily activities and recreation of inmates and staff.

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Scrapbooks consist of clippings pertaining to Norfolk, most particularly to various scandals and to the 1934 investigation and hearingsClippings, dating from 1929-1984, were collected by Gill, who maintained an active interest in the prison throughout his career. The bulk of the clippings date from 1955 and pertain to new buildings on the Norfolk Colony grounds.

Restrictions on Access

Some scrapbook materials are particularly fragile and should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: General writings and studies consists of articles about Norfolk or using data collected at Norfolk by both former staff of the State Prison Colony and others. Included in these sub-subseries are three works later published as one under the title, A Report on the Development of Penological Treatment at Norfolk Prison Colony in Massachusetts, edited by Carl R. Doering. The three works are: Doering’s report published as a forward, Thomas Yakhub’s ...

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The photographs series includes portraits of Gill as well as informal photographs of him taken at events. Photographs of various military facilities may have been compiled for research purposes or sent by institutions seeking advice.Further photographs may be found in their related series, notably those regarding Norfolk Prison Colony and the Institute of Correctional Administration. Photographs found amongst biographical materials, as enclosures in correspondence, and in subject...

Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research; portions available digitally. Selected student materials and prisoner records are closed due to privacy restrictions, including the entirety of the Institute of Correctional Administration student materials. Recordings on audiotape reel are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Reading Room staff know of your specific interest, and if possible, reformatting will be scheduled....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The administrative records of Norfolk State Prison Colony, the bulk of which were created while Gill served as superintendent (1927-1934), consist of division and committee memos and meeting minutes; annual reports authored by Gill, as well as the Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction and prison divisional heads; research reports and procedures; overviews and outlines of prison departments and committees; financial statements; and correspondence and notes. Norfolk, under Gill’s...

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records of prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The administrative records of Norfolk State Prison Colony, the bulk of which were created while Gill served as superintendent (1927-1934), consist of division and committee memos and meeting minutes; annual reports authored by Gill, as well as the Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction and prison divisional heads; research reports and procedures; overviews and outlines of prison departments and committees; financial statements; and correspondence and notes. Norfolk, under Gill’s...

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records of prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Norfolk Prison Colony records document Gill’s time as superintendent of the State Prison Colony in Norfolk Massachusetts from 1927 until his dismissal in 1934. Though some materials date from slightly earlier and later periods, the bulk of the materials are focused on Gill’s administration of the Prison Colony and the public hearings, called by Governor Joseph B. Ely, regarding mismanagement that ended his tenure. Gill maintained an active interest in the prison’s workings...

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Norfolk Prison Colony records document Gill’s time as superintendent of the State Prison Colony in Norfolk Massachusetts from 1927 until his dismissal in 1934. Though some materials date from slightly earlier and later periods, the bulk of the materials are focused on Gill’s administration of the Prison Colony and the public hearings, called by Governor Joseph B. Ely, regarding mismanagement that ended his tenure. Gill maintained an active interest in the prison’s workings...

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Norfolk Prison Colony records document Gill’s time as superintendent of the State Prison Colony in Norfolk Massachusetts from 1927 until his dismissal in 1934. Though some materials date from slightly earlier and later periods, the bulk of the materials are focused on Gill’s administration of the Prison Colony and the public hearings, called by Governor Joseph B. Ely, regarding mismanagement that ended his tenure. Gill maintained an active interest in the prison’s workings...

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Norfolk Prison Colony records document Gill’s time as superintendent of the State Prison Colony in Norfolk Massachusetts from 1927 until his dismissal in 1934. Though some materials date from slightly earlier and later periods, the bulk of the materials are focused on Gill’s administration of the Prison Colony and the public hearings, called by Governor Joseph B. Ely, regarding mismanagement that ended his tenure. Gill maintained an active interest in the prison’s workings...

Restrictions on Access

Psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and legal records regarding prisoners are closed due to privacy restrictions.

This series contains a number of brittle or damaged materials which should be handled with extra care.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-subseries:

Photographs taken during the course of Institute business. Oversize photographs are housed in box 30.

Restrictions on Access

Some student materials and case study materials are closed due to privacy restrictions. The are identified in the container lists below.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-subseries:

Photographs taken during the course of Institute business. Oversize photographs are housed in box 30.

Restrictions on Access

Some student materials and case study materials are closed due to privacy restrictions. The are identified in the container lists below.