The Sherborn Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women.
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Webb, Alfred. 'Symposium on Crime: the Sherborn Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. X Part LXXVII, 1896/1897, pp326-333Download Item:
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Abstract:
For reasons which it is not here necessary to state, the subject of
prisons, imprisonment, and prison discipline, has claimed somewhat
of my attention.
I would briefly direct
your attention to the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women,
at Sherborn, not many miles outside Boston. This prison for
women, managed and officered by women, is by far the most interesting
and cheering institution of the kind I have ever visited.
Much of the remarkable success of the establishment is doubtless due
to the capacity and strong individuality of the superintendent, Mrs.
Ellen C. Johnson, a lady of independent means, who some years
ago was induced to accept the position she now holds. Sherborn proves what can be and what might be done, by the
application of the highest principles to the reformation of the
weakest and most erring of our population. During a tour of nine months abroad, I saw much that was deeply
interesting, but nothing that approached in interest Sherborn
Reformatory Prison for Women.
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Read Tuesday, 15th June, 1897
Author: Webb, Alfred
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Symposium on CrimePublisher:
Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandType of material:
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. X Part LXXVII 1896/1897
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Prison system, United States, Massachusetts, Women prisoners, Rehabilitation of Prisoners, Prisons for WomenISSN:
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