Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 5. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. PRISON SOUTH IS NOW A REFORMATORY Prison North at Michigan City Will Be for Notorious Criminals Only The Prison South will be a reformatory. The bill was passed by the Senate by a vote of 43 to 6. The vote of the House was 93 to 1. The bill, in substance, provides that the Prison South is to be known as the Indiana Reformatory after the first day of April next. All male prisoners between the ages of 16 and 30 convicted of any felony other than treason and murder in the first and second degrees, are to be confined in the Reformatory. Persons over 30 years of age, and those convicted of greater crimes, are to be confined in the Northern Prison, hereafter to be known as the Indiana State Prison.