Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-27

While number of Alabama women are concerned in making every possible effort to secure reformatory for the youthful criminals of our state, 1t is of interest to hear of the success of one which has been for several years established near Augusta, Ga. If I mistake not the man who did most to inaugurate and bring to a iortu- nate certainty this work was MT. Henry Meyers of Augusta, who for years before it's consummation insisted upon the necessity for such an institution. The perseverance and Christian charity of MT. Meyers was ultim itely rewarded,s ,s and to- day one of the most useful and successful charities oi Augusta is this reformatory. It is said to be one of the best in the entire country, and the results of the experi- ment-if it may be so dtsignated-are even mors gratifying than was at first antiei- pated.
 This reformatory is located near the city of Augusta, Ga., on a good farm ,, aud has every convenience for teaching girls and boys to work and be industrious. There are nov thiriy-two inmates, all boys, and frequently boys who are sentenced for sev- eraf years are apprenticed to certain trades s35OO was appropriated to the institution, and the superntendent received S420 per year, an assistant $210 and teacher $l20.
 MT. w. H. Barrett, city recorder of Au- gusta, says: "Since have been recorder find the reformatory has furnished an op- portunity of relieving the city of maOy vicious boys who would develop into crim- inals if not corrected. Unless this method of pun ish menta and correction was offered there would bs no satisfactory manner of reaching them, they being too young to put on the public works, and their parents being too worthless to correct them. If these youthful offenders were put in the chain gang 1t would make criminals of them. Boys are well-trained at the re. formatory-taught to work, and taught higher standard of morals than they had previously known. The commissioners have authority to release boy at any time il he shows improvement, the chief object being to reform rather than to in the right direction, step which will place her upon higher plane. when her people demand that the children of the state shall be cared for, not only with thorough public school system, but with an institution which may reform and re- claim the unfortunate and vicious. Ala. bama has great future ahead of her, and she will need the brain and brawn of all her children. The women of Alabama plead for the education of their children and also for every safeguard which can possibly be thrown around the weak and erring. Tie men of Alabama will surely hear and grant these demands, for without educa- ton for the masses and areformatory, for the young criminals, we cannot hope1Its keep pace the mafcf, St st modem progress ana ndJA64Tancement.
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