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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 reformatory, without walls, opened in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents aged between 6 and 21.
Feb 9, 2022 · Stephen A. Toth follows Mettray, a private agricultural penal colony for wayward boys, from its opening in 1840 to its closure in 1937. Its founder, Frédéric Demetz, aimed to rescue untended urchins from city streets and juveniles convicted of crimes from adult jails.
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents.
- Stephen A. Toth
Drawing inspiration from the models he discovered during study trips to the United States and Europe, Demetz developed a penal colony project whose young inmates were subjected to a system of moral reform centred on a “substitute family”.
- Jean-Lucien Sanchez
- 2020
report described and represented Mettray in detail, looking at the colony as a model for the implementation of many similar agricultural colonies in rural Belgium.
Mettray was founded during a period that invited experimentation in corrections, as evidenced by the allure of carceral innovations abroad. With the advent of the Second Empire, the focus of justice policy shifted to emphasize reinforcing mechanisms of repression.
Oct 6, 2016 · The image depicts boys at the Mettray Penal Colony in Mettray, France. The colony was a reformatory for delinquent boys, and upon opening in 1840 it was hailed as a revolutionary form of detention and rehabilitation.
