Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of four volumes of typescript minutes of monthly meetings held by the Board of Visitors of the Albion State Training School and the Western Correctional Facility and the latter's predecessor institution, the Western Reformatory for Women.

The minutes cover the Board's monthly meetings from January 1942 to December 1946 and from January 1949 to December 1970. The minutes average approximately eight pages in length.

The minutes summarize activities at the institution during the previous month. They highlight special features of reports from the Superintendent, the Correctional Clerk, the school staff, hospital staff, dental clinic, and other areas of the institution. The reports discuss improvements to the physical plant, staff changes, developments in health and educational programs, emergencies, and special events. The report list numbers of inmates received and discharged during the month and provide a census of all inmates and infants. Also included is a list of numbers of inmates receiving dental and medical attention.

B1278-00: This accretion consists of copies of board of managers (later board of visitors) meeting minutes for the Western House of Refuge (later, Albion State Training School), January 1921 to December 1938. Information is typewritten and typically includes date, members present, resolutions made and voted on, treasurer's reports, physician's reports, other reports read and accepted, appointments and resignations from the board; also included is other business,inmate cases, and matters of policy discussed and acted upon. Names of inmates committed, discharged, and paroled are included.