THE IDEAL OF A TRUE PRISON SYSTEM FOR A STATE
By Z[EBULON]. R[EED]. BROCKWAY
Superintendent of the Detroit House of Correction
2. PRIMARY SCHOOLS (as at Munson, Mass.), for the education of children from the almshouses, who are three years of age and upward, away from the contamination and taint of these miserable places, where they shall be fed, clothed and trained for good citizens, instead of criminals as now; also schools of a compulsory character in large cities and towns, for the control and culture of the incorrigible, who are now expelled from the public schools or brutalized by corporal punishment. Such schools are already in operation in some states, and are found useful and successful.