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The school was built in 1853, to a design by Boston architect Gridley James Fox Bryant, who had a specialization in prison design. The Arthur R. Gould School, which is attended by its inmates, [2] was added in 1921. [3] The State Reform School was renamed the State School for Boys in 1903, then the Boys Training Center in 1959.
The West Virginia Industrial Home for Boys was — from 1891 to 1983 — the state juvenile detention center for male offenders, located at Pruntytown near Grafton, West Virginia, USA. Young male offenders, aged 12 to 20 years, were sentenced to the facility beginning in 1891.
In 1891, the West Virginia Industrial Home for Boys — the state juvenile detention center for male offenders — was established at Pruntytown. According to The West Virginia Encyclopedia (e-WV), "For generations of West Virginia youth, the name Pruntytown was synonymous with reform school". [5] The facility closed in 1983.
Of the two main characters in “Nickel Boys,” Jack Turner, played by Brandon Wilson, is more seasoned and he befriends the more naïve Elwood Curtis, whose bright future as a college student in ...
Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls in Bon Air, Virginia; reform school for white girls; Rappahannock Industrial Academy near Dunnsville, Virginia; for black students; State Normal and Industrial School for Women in Harrisonburg, Virginia; Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School in Lawrenceville, Virginia
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The State Reform School for Boys in Westborough Massachusetts was a state institution for the reformation of juvenile offenders from 1848 to 1884. Originally conceived the facility was built to house up to 300 young boys but by 1852 an addition was added to house an additional 300 inmates.
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...