House of refuge

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HOUSE OF REFUGE, punishment. The name given to a prison for juvenile delinquents. These houses are regulated in the United States on the most humane principles, by special local laws.

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The Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, the organization responsible for the House of Refuge, was one of many benevolent societies that sought to combat poverty and crime in New York City with educational reforms.

Coercion, if coercion be necessary: the educational function of the New York House of Refuge, 1824-1874

Public and private efforts at curbing delinquency such as the well-known Five Points House of Refuge and the largely unstudied Mercury packet ship for "wild, reckless and semi-criminal lads" all come into view.

A Pickpocket's Tale: the Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

In the course of his work he often visited the house of refuge she opened in Kensington.

A woman who refused to sit on the sidelines when there was no justice

The State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in its famous decision in "Ex Parte Crouse," stated that the aims of the house of refuge were to reform the youngsters within them "by training .

"From Houses of Refuge to 'Youth Corrections': Same Story, Different Day"

However a second generation, in one case quite literally, has tried to push out from the elite center toward women on the peripheries of Venetian life and to place them in their institutional setting, whether the informal institutions of neighbor and class or the formal institutions of convent and house of refuge.

Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice.

Other organizations Mann has been involved with include the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program; the Wellness Community, a support group for cancer patients; and the House of Refuge, a men's homeless shelter.

JEANNE MANN WINS PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD

It progressed to a potter's field, a military arsenal and parade ground, a reformatory, and after the House of Refuge for the Society for the Protection of Juvenile Delinquents burned down in 1839, the city gradually turned it into a park, which was opened to the public in 1847 and was named for President James Madison, who lived in New York for a short time on Cherry Street.

The Faith Report: The life and times of Madison Square

Refusing to deal with his son, Cole's father places him in a boy's reformatory called the House of Refuge, where one loses one's name.

Cole of Spyglass Mountain

But last December she vanished from the Chester House of Refuge.

GRIM HIDEAWAY WAS HOME TO MURDER GIRL

Joseph Curtis was the superintendent of the New York House of Refuge from its inception in January of 1825 until June of 1826, the first 18 months of its existence.

Out of time: the Curtis-Wells anomaly and the history of American corrections

Reformist organizations began to develop asylums for these children like the New York House of Refuge, a cross between orphanage and reform school, where abandoned children could be sheltered and taught decent conduct and a useful trade.

Public policy and the 'wicked stepmother': the ideological war against institutional child care