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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. The reformatory finally opened on July 24, 1876, with Brockway as warden, when 30 inmates were transferred from Auburn Prison.
Elmira Reformatory in upstate New York offered the most successful program of approaches since the eighteenth-century origins of American correctional education. Zebulon Reed Brockway, who established the Elmira prison program, served in prison reform for fifty years. He constructed a coherent structure for prison education as offering varied ...
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. Instead of coercing with the lash, Elmira would encourage with rewards.
Mar 31, 2008 · Notes. In two parts. Part one contains a history and description of the reformatory and its methods of administration. Part two includes articles and excerpts of reports pertaining to the reformatory system, and a compilation of laws governing the reformatory
Chowan University “The Elmira Reformatory was quite literally a ‘model system’ and its adoption into the wider system was to prove to be both an opportunity and an opportunity missed, as other harsher ideas of punishment over reform took over in the 20th century and beyond.”-Dr. Matthew Fullerty, Publisher at Parkgate Press LLC
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Accessed 19 November 2024. 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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0-7734-2579-9. 978-0-7734-2579-8. Price: $299.95 + shipping. (Click the PayPal button to buy) The Elmira Reformatory was without question the first prison in American penal history to employ the indeterminate sentence, good-time, and parole. For that distinction alone, Elmira represented a sea change in penal philosophy and practice.
