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Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Central Ohio's Historic Prisons
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Central Ohio's Historic Prisons
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With the opening of the Ohio State Reformatory in 1896, the state legislature had put in place "the most complete prison system, in theory, which exists in the United States." The reformatory joined the Ohio Penitentiary and the Boys Industrial School, also central-Ohio institutions, to form the first instance of "graded prisons; with the reform farm on one side of the new prison, for juvenile offenders, and the penitentiary on the other, for all the more hardened and incorrigible class." However, even as the concept was being replicated throughout the country, the staffs of the institutions were faced with the day-to-day struggle of actually making the system work.
| Author: David Meyers |
| Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions |
| Publication Date: Oct 07, 2009 |
| Number of Pages: 130 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 153163883X |
| ISBN-13: 9781531638832 |
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