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A reformatory or reformatory school is a youth detention center or an adult correctional facility popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Western countries. [1] In the United Kingdom and United States, they came out of social concerns about cities, poverty, immigration, and gender following industrialization , as well as from a ...
New York House of Refuge, a reform school completed in 1854. A reform school was a penal institution, generally for teenagers, mainly operating between 1830 and 1900.In the United Kingdom and its colonies, reformatories (commonly called reform schools) were set up from 1854 onward for children who were convicted of a crime, as an alternative to an adult prison.
The reformatory was established in 1904 as the only institution in New York state which could provide training for delinquent girls under the age of 16. [2] The institute took the place and the buildings of the former House of Refuge for Women. It was located on the east side of the Hudson River, with a "famous view" [3] of the Catskill ...
Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, improve the effectiveness of a penal system, reduce recidivism or implement alternatives to incarceration. [1] It also focuses on ensuring the reinstatement of those whose lives are impacted by crimes.
Somehow that seems like an inadequate concept in a case where children in a state-run (now long closed) reform school were raped, beaten and tortured — abuse that went on for decades, from 1940 ...
In India, such a detention centre is known as a borstal school. Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and were intended to reform young offenders . The word originated from the first such institution established in 1902 near the English village of Borstal in Kent, and is sometimes used loosely to apply to other kinds of youth institutions and ...
Petersen renamed the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls as “Kilbourne Farm,“ the land’s original designation. [2] This girls reformatory evolved over time to become a co-ed, racially integrated state reformatory that is now known as the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center, operated by the Virginia Department of Juvenile ...
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