University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-07-15
REFORM PROBLEM
FACING BOONV|LLE
Ten Per Cent of Inmates
There Should Have Stric-
ter Discipline.
MAKE OTHER BOYS WORSE
W. VI. Wilson. Superinten-
dent. Says He Has no
Place for This Cas-.
MAKE OTHER BOYS WORSE

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r,ozs,l b. Governor Hadlav 70 10 hIif
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10. me -a%I I"eH'T-oIe years pres-Gen
II tbs board ol managers OF the MIS-
-o.ri Training School for Bcvs =
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III! S'4.. ne SAYS 'hat IL per cen
Of those sent 70 the Boonville re
:o-.uacory should BE- in such an inst
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III - 'ne boy u lhe boohFllle Re
fo-E-atory, but who cannot be sent II
the peniceutiary a. Jefferson CITY,
The state now has az Boopyi1le :
raining school Tor BOYS under Is vaar,
II age. Mr.. Williams SAYS, and fhs
ycu!renr:ary for those over that jin,ir
Experience has shown that cIassi+ca
ton BIZ arbitrary age limit does moi
bring results that are good fo- rho
state and for sCcfarv
BOYS Sometimes Are Hardened
IL sometimes hsDnars RIA. a vc,,-h
TO; IS wears has became very much
hardened and j. not auenabIa 70 rha
discipline OF the training school. which
a. its name indicates. i nor 2 prison
but a school Il has no walls M
guards. no cells. bur j. conducted upon
the plan OF a military and manual
framing institution
during the t"entE-one years ex,
f!7'-Ece Oh tHe training school, II prob,
ao!y can be SAID that approximately ~
! per cent o. the boys sent 10 II belong
/ t" cia@s tAat VIII not respond to its
dlSclhAHc ana should be in some other
/ institution. lhese boys give all the
trouble the school has. 1t would solve
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iefred TO some institution such as this
intermediary institution. for they
should not be sent TO the penitentiary.
Ne alsciPlihe LOT them must De strict
eF thah that provided tor nine-tenths
Vi the DoEs IN the school, and their
privileges should be fewer until their
cohouct Is better They belong to a
|idSS' however, mat may be saved to
society ana they nave the qualities
'hat make good citizens in them.
An Age Limit Not Best.
IT is we'll known also thu, ,bere
are many offenders more than IL
years old and less Than D. and in
fact. older than tba, who could no
cared for better in a reformatorv than
in the penitent,arv, and who. by nroner
treatment, might become good citizens.
me courts should be gwen the dis
cre'!oh ol sending persons to the re-
ioFL1atofE or 10 the pcnitentiary, de-
pending upon the character OF the
CRIME, the history OF the prisoner and
OF MS surroundings and the probability
OF ms reformation, rather than upon
the mere matter OF age.
he state now has more than five
hundred acres OF farm land at Boon
WIG ana the reiOrinat0ry could have
TWO departments, entirely separate
from each other, one the training
Schooi as now conducted as an educa-
tIohal institution for wayward boys,
and the other an Intermediate reform
atory Tor persons needing stricter dis
cIptIhe. A person sentenced to the re-
iofhatory could be transferred from
one department to the other as his
conduct and progress should merit or
ms condition and age require.
Boys Could Erect BuiIdinu.
"Tbe Star say, ,baro sro in tho r.,,i
az. hovs mr. vo,pe man loo,
than 3. vears old who should ho ,ro,-
ferred 10 an institution Of rho Lind
mentioned. There arc from twon,v