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- In 1869, the Legislature authorized purchase of a 280-acre site in Elmira and earmarked the new facility for reformatory purposes, restricting it to first offenders between the ages of 16 and 30.
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Elmira Correctional Facility, also known as "The Hill", is a maximum security state prison located in Chemung County, in the City of Elmira in the US state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
When New York's Elmira Reformatory opened in 1876, it rejected 19th century penology's holy trinity of silence, obedience and labor. Elmira's goal would be reform of the convict, and its methods would be psychological rather than physical.
While conditions at Elmira may not have been unusual for similar institutions at the time, the investigations pointed up severe deficiencies in the application of the adult reformatory concept.
A nation's first reformatory. When New York's Elmira Reformatory opened in 1876, it rejected 19th century penology's holy trinity of silence, obedience and labor. Elmira's goal would be reform of the convict, and its methods would be psychological rather than physical.
From its foundation in 1876, the Elmira Reformatory developed in the direction of its object (to a “crime hospital” for the morally depraved) since the day of its dedication.
Elmira system, American penal system named after Elmira Reformatory, in New York. In 1876 Zebulon R. Brockway became an innovator in the reformatory movement by establishing Elmira Reformatory for young felons. Brockway was much influenced by the mark system, developed in Australia by Alexander.
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This institution was to be located in the city of Elmira and the name was to be the New York State Reformatory at Elmira. At that time, the State Comptroller was Lucius Robinson, an Elmirian who was in sympathy with these plans. He was influential in Albany and helped to procure the necessary funds. Mr.
