Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-04-30
THE STATE REFORM SCHOOL.


One Of the good measures passed by the present
Legislature is that making provision for State Re.
lorm Schools for the punishment and reformation
oiJuvenile offenders. The provisions Of thi, law
strike US as enineuty just, and they cannot fail
to commend themselves to The humane aud intel.
Iigent taxpayers ofthe State
The law appropriites $40, 900 annually to The
city Of Cincinnati for which they are 10 keep
one hundred boys, being those Of the worst class
OF juvenile offenders. Five thousand dollars is
also appropriated for the support and safe keeping
OF fifty girls; aud five thousand dollars is apropri-
ated to the same city for the erection Of tempo.
rary place Of confinement for the fifty girls
These places are designed for the safe keeping Of
the most deprayed and vicious classes Of young
persons.
Another provision ofthe bill sppropriates ff
teen thousand dollars for the purchase, in some
favorable locality, Of one thousand acres Of land
for Farm, aud ten thousand dollars for the erec.
tion of buildings, the purchase Of agricultural i'm
Plements, aud other necessary art cles. 1t is not
proposed to build one large building upon this
farm, for tue accommodation Of the persons sent
there, but the plan is to build several small houses
IN which the persons on tie farm shall live in
dwelling house style; the purpose being not TO
give it the appearance of a Farm Prison, but of
Farm School, This Farm is desigpel for the ac
commodaton of the better class of juvenile often
defs. They are, of course to be under a proper
dlslphne, and will be made to work, and will have
instllled into them the habits ofindustrv and elea.
nllness, and the principles of religion and virtue
inducements will be held out TO the inmates of
the institutions at Cincinnati, by which they NAV
be released from their confinement, and sent to
the farm, All such as behave themselves we'll
and give unmistakeabe evidence ofhqying refor.
med, will be promoted to the farm, while
those who are sent to the farm in the first
place, and who continue in their vicious practices
and become unruy and violate tue regulations ofI
the farm, will he sent to TIE institution in CinciD.
natl. So, by having the two places of different
grades, one will seive as an incentive to good be-
Aavlor, and the other as terror to lin who
doeth evil.
These are IN brief, the outlines of this most ex-
ceIlent law. When it goes into effect it will sep.
arate the young, who perhaps in a moment of
passion or thoughtessness, violated the laws ofI
the land, from the hardened criminals in our iails
aud pententares, and evil contamination Incl !
dent thereto and place them under Good infuen
ces. The bill passed the House by vote of rs /
yeas, to q nays. 1t then went to the Senate,
and was amended in some immateria points, and
passed BY vote of 90 yeas to 8 nays. The am
endments were agreed to by the House. and was
then carried on its first passage by vote of SO
yeas 70 nays
To Mr.. Monroe, the able and popular member
from Loran, are the people of Ohio indebted, in
4 preeminent degree, for this wise and salutary
REFORM Journal.