Indiana Reformatory
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
George Asbury essay
Collection — Folder: S0035
Identifier: S0035
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a copy of the essay "Observations on the Adult Illiterate Criminal in School," by George Asbury. In it, Asbury discusses how many criminals are illiterate and how an education could help them to become productive members of society. Asbury also reveals the results of a study done at the Indiana Reformatory on 64 men, whose academic progress was carefully examined. His goal was to show that criminal, or "defective," men could be reformed.
Dates:
1907
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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George Asbury essay
Indiana Department of Correction collection
Collection
Identifier: L580
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings related to prisons and prison issues throughout the state of Indiana during the mid-1960s and from 1978 to 1981, as well as the Board of Trustees of the Indiana Reformatory (Jeffersonville) minutes for three meetings during 1918-1919. Two reports are also available in Box 2: Corrections in Indiana: Major Findings and Recommendations (circa 1960) and Departmental Philosophy of the...
Dates:
1918-1985
Indiana state prisons photograph collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: P075
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs, most likely from the Indiana Department of Correction, in Indiana ranging from circa 1930 to circa 1955, regarding buildings, facilities, prisoners, corrections staff and administration, and prison life in Indiana State Prison in Michigan City; Indiana Reformatory in Jeffersonville; Indiana State Farm in Putnam County; Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis; and unidentified prisons. Most of the photographs appear to have come from a...
Dates:
circa 1930-1955
Wilson S. Daily collection
Collection — Folder: S2031
Identifier: S2031
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a Republican ticket from Kansas for the 1888 election, a commission report on the Indiana Reformatory from 1921, and correspondence related to the report and the Indiana Reformatory created by Warren T. McCray in Indianapolis in 1921.
Dates:
1888, 1921
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Wilson S. Daily collection
