Thanks Stan I had read the archive and am interested in how a 17 year old got to be in the Reformatory Her sister was in the Reformatory in Doncaster Robin

The Reformatory School Act 1854, substituted the school for the gaol. All judicial benches were empowered to send delinquents to schools when they had been guilty of acts punishable by short imprisonment, the limit of which was at first fourteen and became afterwards ten days. A serious flaw in this act long survived; this was the provision that a short period of imprisonment in gaol must precede reception into the reformatory; well-meaning, but mistaken people upheld it as essential for deterrence. More enlightened opinion condemned the rule as inflicting an indelible prison taint and breeding contamination, even with ample and effective safeguards. Wiser legislation has followed, and an act of 1899 abolished preliminary imprisonment. They receive all juvenile offenders, up to the age of sixteen, who had been convicted of an offence punishable with penal servitude or imprisonment. Older offenders, between sixteen and twenty-one, come within the category of juvenile adults and were dealt with differently. http://1911encyclopedia.org/index.htm Stan Mapstone -----Original Message----- From: robin@scottishwool.com <robin@scottishwool.com> To: ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:53 Subject: Re: [ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND] Gardner 1891 Tatham Street Reformatory Thanks Stan I had read the archive and am interested in how a 17 year old got to be in he Reformatory Her sister was in the Reformatory in Doncaster Robin ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message