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Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series consists of meeting minutes in the form of hearing transcripts from a committee investigating the problem of runaways
at the Agricultural and Industrial School. Testimony included personality traits of good supervisors; methods of discipline
and preventing runaways; punishing runaways; frequency of home visits; past and present conditions at the school; reasons
for inmates running away; criteria for assigning inmates to colonies; and possibility of regular meetings of cottage supervisors
to exchange ideas on treatment and discipline of inmates.
Creator:
Title:
Minutes of meetings of a special committee of the Board of Visitors
Quantity:
0.1 cubic feet
Inclusive Dates:
1938
Series Number:
A3057
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