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The government followed up on these demands in 1900 by mandating the creation of public reformatories in each prefecture.
Given that he has spent much of his life in reformatories and prisons, he is, we're led to believe, somewhat naive about the outside world.
Other institutions such as reformatories were built in the 20th century, when it was believed most crime in Ireland was alcohol-related.
The CHAIRPERSON said the Committee was concerned that street children held in reformatories might be seen as in conflict with the law.
The managers of reformatories and welfare homes take measures to maintain links between children and their families.
Another issue focussed upon by the delegation was the treatment of juveniles, in both reformatories and closed prison establishments.
Many reformers criticised the industrial schools and reformatories as inappropriate for dealing with problem youth.
Since all juvenile offenders are committed to public education, there are no juvenile inmates in the reformatories.
These institutions were meant to fill the gap between public schools and reformatories.
The Committee had received reports that children could be sent to reformatories for six months without any decision by a court.
He acknowledged that the separate reformatories at Isle-aux-Noix and Penetanguishene were a step in the right direction.
Thousands of Chinese youth could be spared time in juvenile detention centers and juvenile reformatories.
The law also provides that juveniles must be placed in reformatories only after solutions such as guidance, admonishment, reprimand or parental pledges have failed.
Studies of the yearly intake of prisons, reformatories, and jails in the United States and Europe show that from one-half to two-thirds of those imprisoned have served previous sentences in the same or in other institutions.
Beginning at age nine, he spent much of his life in juvenile reformatories or in prison for crimes that included petty larceny, armed robbery, burglary, and auto theft.
In examining the state child-care system in Ireland, the series brought to light a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children known as industrial schools.
Social services need to develop preventive work so that vulnerable groups such as women, immigrants and young people between 18-25 coming from reformatories or broken homes do not become homeless.
Progressive legislation, the evolution of reformatories, industrial schools, free education and more use of foster care represented substantial progress.
The organisation supported a program that included special courts for young offenders, limited use of detention for those under 14, qualified staff for reformatories and industrial schools and the use of indefinite sentences.
In addition, education for peace, human rights and respect for the law has to be provided for young people in prisons, reformatories or treatment centres.
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In the 1850s and 1860s, riotous and refractory pauper girls disturbed workhouses, prisons and reformatories in England, Ireland and Australia.
If reformatories don't reform, do something that gets them to do so.
Notably, none of the Journal articles mention the women being racially segregated within the reformatories, although other historical accounts report this.
Norman thinks that there is an element of truth behind the recent suggestion by a Hull Councillor that parents of child offenders should be sent to reformatories.
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