- Since the completion of the firstjail in 1721, the Dutchess County Sheriffhas provided staffto process and supervise inmates. Conditions have improved over time, with increasing emphasis on rehabilitation instead of long-term detention. The varieties of offenses for which residents can ' be jailed has decreased over time, while successive new buildings have strengthened corrections services. This process of professionalization led to AilREsTWARRANT Courtesyof the Dutchess County Clerk the creation of the Corrections Division in 1979. On October 16, 1733, Judge Jacobus Terbos swore out this writ ordering SheriffJames Squire to arrest Samuell Taylor and confinehim in the county jail. Taylor had failed to pay offa debt he owed to a Robert Huey who sued him in court - a reminder that in the eighteenth century, a resident could go to jail for not paying their bills. This is the oldest ,w..-,_J arrest warrant in the Dutchess County Archives. ''"""-"-- ;�i..: �=------CALENDAR OF PRISONERS THE FouRTH CoUNTY JAIL AND CoURTHOUSE Courtesyof the Dutchess County Clerk Courtesyof the Dutchess CountyHistorical Society This list of inmates hdd in the For most of the past 300 years, the Dutchess County Jail from June county jail was an integral part of 1796 to June 1797 provides a the courthouse, taking up the IN HOTPURSUIT snapshot of contemporary crime. bottommost floor. For the firstfour Courtesyof the Dutchess CountySheriff The general varieties of offenses courthouses, built between 1720 -including theft, breaking and and 1809, jail cells were relatively In 1913, Harry Kendall Thaw, who had entering, "breach of the peace," dismal places. The specific cell seen murdered the famousarchitect Stanford and failure to make ­ in this 1901 image (above) was White, escaped from Matteawan State continue to be issues today. part of the fourth county court­ Hospital in Fishkill and sought refuge 1:'HA.W Stealing horses, for which a court house (left), which sat at the corner in Canada. Dutchess County Sheriff sentenced Danid A.Tyler to of Market and Main Streets in FredHornbeck immediately pursued serve seven years, is no longer as Poughkeepsie from 1809 until Thaw across the border, nearly causing prevalent an offense, reflecting being replaced in 1902 by the an international incident. American change over time. structure that stands there today. authorities formally extradited Thaw to For 92 years, all county inmates , where he subsequently would have seen these sights. surrendered to SheriffHornbeck. - The sheriffbrought Thaw back to Fishkill in January 1915, leaving a trail of cartoons like this one (right) in his wake. {)1'1101"1"1 OFFir� OF DUTCHESS COUN'lY SHERII'F r:� c..,d C.,1""•�f,:;: JE.l.U CRJM.J�AL JJJEJ'lT[elCAHON _J lllltOh&H : ;:\,.; ,.. , POUCHl.'.EEl'

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2-7-18,84 H�'V"-TUl, Cuba 1970s DAn BOR" D!TIICW.CE DUTCHESS COUNTY JAIL, IL�J�IIT 5 ft, a I, ""'"'11·,-1sz ,,,. Courtesyof the Dutchess CountySheriff 1951 D1C!Lr, Medlrn IIA!� r:rey, :&ld. SHERIFF CLOSE AND DEPUTIES, EHS Blue (:0'trl.E:<10N Fair cs1:iae«�11;i_::_ ".:'l'lO .,,,,�rr;.,w,; Cook the Courtesyof the Dutchess CountySheriff , This interior shot of the jail (below right) records � MA�RIW 'fee view that awaited inmates during the 1970s, a marked Corrections officers, identified by SCA�S AND hlARE,'l'ip rif rj-D1 t l/C 1 .llllO contrast from the cells of 1901. This new jail building Dl.51,h Jl"os 3 & 4 doubled llO dueta pants instead of "puers and • p,;1111-arl'