[2] Until the American Civil War, the main type of for-profit prison labor done at the penitentiary was the "making of coarse boots and shoes for the Southern negroes.

"[2] After the closure of the Arsenal Penitentiary, Albany became the destination for prisoners of the District of Columbia.

[3] In 1910 the state prison commission issued a report with "scathing criticism of existing conditions" in the penitentiary.

[4] The prison was demolished in 1933, at which time demolition crews found "'dungeons' that were likely used to keep rule-breaking inmates in deep isolation.

"[5] The turn-of-the-century Bertillion-system mugshots from the penitentiary are kept in the Albany Hall of Records.