This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, and documents pertaining to the $500 million bond issue referendum for financing New York State prisons. On November 3, 1981, New York State voters voted against the bond issue. The bond would have financed an expansion of the state prison system and was proposed to keep up with the growing prison population.

This folder contains: two copies of a pamphlet titled "The Correctional Facilities Bond Issue"; two copies of a pamphlet titled "The Bond Issue: Questions and Answers"; a photocopied memo from "Mark" to the State Prisons Task Force headed "State prisoners incarcerated for non-violent acts; a February 15, 1980 memo from Lynn Zeller of the National Council on Crime and Deliquency; and a February 25, 1980 memo from Irene Jackson of the New York State Coalition for Criminal Justice.

This folder contains a July 20, 1981 report by Hodges about the purchase of billboard advertising, and several copies of Hodges' August 20, 1981 letter to the editors of various upstate newspapers as a member of Voters Against the Prison Construction Bond.