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  1. 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.

  2. Oct 5, 2017 · The Mettray reformatory was founded in 1839, some ten kilometres from Tours in the quiet countryside of the Loire Valley. Over almost a hundred years the reformatory imprisoned juvenile delinquent boys aged 7 to 21, particularly from Paris.

  3. May 16, 2020 · This solid history of the Mettray boys’ reformatory, from its opening in 1840 to its closure in 1937, undertakes quite an extensive exploration of the rich arch

    • Oliver Davis
    • 2020
  4. Mettray is, above all else, a deeply personal illumination of life inside France's most venerated carceral institution. 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
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  8. Nov 15, 2019 · The book dissects Mettray's social anatomy, exploring inmates' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and the book situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France.

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