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    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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    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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