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The texts, drafts, news clippings, correspondence, and other supporting material is available for speeches and other non-book writings of Persico.

This series contains files associated with Michael Mellos research for his publications, his legal work, or his classroom work. The research files cover a range of topics including juveniles on death row, jury override, and the adequate representation for indigent inmates and represent legal materials, academic articles, newspaper articles, and correspondence regarding various cases and legal issues.

This series includes newsletters, reports, and studies published both by the Center for Community Studies and other organizations. Newsletters include the Center for Community Studies' Education Newsletter and the State University College of Albany's Faculty Bulletin of Information (F.B.I.). This series also includes articles, surveys and publications on prisons (such as Sing Sing), and segregation.

This series contains correspondence, notes, news clippings relating to CEC, reports, financial documents, and other administrative records of CEC. It also contains CEC founding and structural records. Most of the materials in this series are arranged chronologically.

This series consists of material created or collected by Correctional Association staffers and board members engaged in short-term projects designed to produce written reports about various aspects of the correctional system; copies of many of these reports are included. Of particular interest are the Case Histories Project (1983-1985), Idle Time Project (1981-1985), and the Prison and Jail Conditions Project (1982-1986), which entailed extensive surveys of conditions and inmate programs available in New York State correctional facilities and generated correspondence and other material from inmates. Also of note is the Prison Mental Hygiene Project (1985-1988) that documents the programs and resources then available to prisoners with mental illness and developmental disabilities. Two of the projects, the State Planning Project (1981-1982) and the Prison Overcrowding Project (1982-1984), concern crowding in prisons and alternatives to new prison construction. This series also contains material generated in connection with the AIDS in Prison Project (1985-1988), the Budget Education Project (1983-1985), the Latino Project (1985-1988), and proposals for several other projects that the Association did not complete.

This series contains primarily handwritten lecture and research notes, including a number of folders pertaining to the revision of the United Nations Charter.

The news clippings cover the death penalty in New York State from 1995-2007. The material is arranged by year, there are a set of originals and a set of duplicates of the same clippings. The materials are housed in the original manner that they were donated in from the New York Capital Defender Office.

For his next volume in his "Albany Cycle," William Kennedy returned to recurrent characters Edward and Katrina Daugherty, first introduced in Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy charts their lives and subsequent, turbulent marriage in the city between 1884 and 1912 in The Flaming Corsage, published in 1996. The series includes multiple drafts and edited manuscripts, book tour materials, cover artwork, reviews, articles, correspondence, and information about the audio version of the book.

Contains general items that pertain to the School of Criminal Justice. Includes general correspondence with faculty, program and course descriptions, draft proposals, grant proposals, press releases, faculty meeting minutes, general planning documents and Dean's Reports. The bulk of the materials falls within the years 1965-1984. The files of Dean Newman, 1977-1984, also contain correspondence relating to accreditation site visits he made to other institutions offering courses in Criminal Justice. Included in Newman's files is correspondence with famed criminologist Marvin E. Wolfgang (1961-1983) and the former Dean of the School of Criminal Justice and School President Vincent O'Leary (1976-1977). In a few cases Newman's files contain the correspondence of O'Leary and Richard Myren. In a number of cases Newman carried on professional correspondences with colleagues both before and after his term as Dean. See the Donald Newman Papers for that correspondence. The bulk of the material dates between 1968 and 1983.

This series contains membership renewal forms and mailing lists. The mailing lists are from several sources: names collected at events, names acquired through information requests, names acquired from membership files, and names acquired through other organizations. There are also files on name and address changes that were made known to NYCAP. There are several mailing lists from support groups, and other pesticide groups included in this series. The membership renewal forms cover 1990-2002.