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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 House of Refuge has always been a joyful burden," Benjie says, "It is your help that has given these children the chances they need in life.
The Greatest Showman
However, after several decades of the House of Refuge movement, it became apparent that it fell victim to the same "increasingly repressive emphasis" that characterized the earlier treatment of youth within the adult penal system.
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The New York House of Refuge, the first juvenile reformatory in the United States, opened in New York City in 1824.
Coercion, if coercion be necessary: the educational function of the New York House of Refuge, 1824-1874
Louis House of Refuge and Father Dunne's News Boys' Home and Protectorate.
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We learn of institutions for the poor such as Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, the House of Refuge, and the City Charity Workhouse becoming valuable supply shops for human remains.
MacDonald, Helen, Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy
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
Called the New York House of Refuge, its creators called it a "school." 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. Monica Chojnacka does the former in Working Women in Early Modern Venice (Baltimore, 2001), Jutta Sperling the latter in Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (Chicago, 1999).
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

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