Mettray Penal Colony, situated in the small village of Mettray, in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, just north of the city of Tours, was a private...
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Mettray (French pronunciation: [mɛtʁɛ] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. The Mettray Penal Colony was opened there in...
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is a 1946 book by Jean Genet about experiences as a detainee in Mettray Penal Colony and Fontevrault prison, although there is no direct evidence of Genet...
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documentary directed by Nicolas Lévy-Beff. Penal colony Penal labour Penal transportation Vichy France Mettray Penal Colony Bagnio Devil's Island Galley Pierre...
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including repeated acts of vagrancy, he was sent at the age of 15 to Mettray Penal Colony where he was detained between 2 September 1926 and 1 March 1929....
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Because of his wayward behaviour, he was sent by his father to Mettray Penal Colony, a private reformatory near Tours, for six months during 1876. By...
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the theories of the Scottish penal reformer, Alexander Maconochie. His book Mettray (1855) describes the Mettray Penal Colony with its then new approach...
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philanthropist who established the Netherlands Mettray, the equivalent of the French Mettray Penal Colony. My Visit to Mettray in 1845: A Speech Penological and Preventive...
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for young people. His most famous story is Le Colon de Mettray, set in the Mettray Penal Colony. Eugène Nyon also collaborated with several magazines,...
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commissions, De Buxeuil filed a complaint. Genet was trapped in the Mettray Penal Colony for a year. The poet reported this terrible experience in Le journal...
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et Punir, to describe the modern penal system of the 1970s, embodied by the well-known penal institution at Mettray in France. The phrase combines the...
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founded the Farm School for Boys at Redhill in Surrey modelled on the Mettray Penal Colony in France. The Reformatory School Act of Parliament (1854), championed...
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homosexual erotic desires for his fellow adolescent detainees in Mettray Penal Colony and Fontevrault prison. 1946 Eftir örstuttan leik Elías Mar Iceland...
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click View/Open. Radzinowicz, Leon; Hood, Roger (1990). The emergence of penal policy in Victorian and Edwardian England Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback...
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Davenport Hill visited Mettray Penal Colony with her father. They became close friends with Mettray's founder, Frédéric-Auguste Demetz. Mettray suffered considerable...
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Moreton Bay." He describes the situation as similar to the famous Mettray Penal Colony in France, where the architecture made the purpose of the institution...
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Demetz worked on the design and layout of the buildings for the Mettray Penal Colony, an agricultural reform school, which was initially directed by Demetz...
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State Reform School for Boys (category Penal system in Massachusetts)
is overcome with the cottage system. In the late 1830s, the Colonie de Mettray in France was built on the cottage system. In the United States, the cottage...
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