Prisoner-built Church of the Good Thief, Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York

[ca. 1930–1945]

Prisoners demolished century-old prison walls and built the first church within State prison walls dedicated to the Patron of the Condemned, Saint Dismas, the Good Thief. Rev. A.R. Hyland, Founder. Would you like to help rehabilitate prisoners? Write for particulars to The Good Thief Foundation, Inc. Chateaugay, N.Y., established for moral, religious, educational and temporal improvement of inmates in penal institutions.