Central Ohio's Historic Prisons - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:David Meyers, Elise MeyersTheme:Cultural Region/Midwest, Geographic Orientation/OhioPublish date:10/7/2009Pages:130
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsISBN-13:9781531638832ISBN-10:153163883XUPC:9781531638832Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, PenologyBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.413Product ID:SC3ZJZFN7X
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsISBN-13:9781531638832ISBN-10:153163883XUPC:9781531638832Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, PenologyBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.413Product ID:SC3ZJZFN7X
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