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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.
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.
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
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 ...
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.
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 ...
BCC was constructed in 1889 as the Missouri Training School for Boys. The facility was transferred to the Department of Corrections on July 1, 1983, and operates to this day in that capacity. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as Historic District H .
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