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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.
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.
15 de nov. de 2019 · The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now this book takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's ...
9 de feb. de 2022 · Stephen A. Toth follows Mettray, a private agricultural penal colony for wayward boys, from its opening in 1840 to its closure in 1937. Its founder, Frédéric Demetz, aimed to rescue untended urchins from city streets and juveniles convicted of crimes from adult jails.
13 de may. de 2020 · Despite the juvenile detention center’s important place in the history of incarceration, Stephen Toth’s Mettray: A History of France’s Most Venerated Carceral Institution is the first work to extensively study the prison. But, Toth’s Mettray is far from just an institutional history.
Drawing inspiration from the models he discovered during study trips to the United States and Europe, Demetz developed a penal colony project whose young inmates were subjected to a system of moral reform centred on a “substitute family”.
Arizona State University, is dedicated to the history of the Mettray penal and agricultural colony. Founded in 1840 by Frédéric-Auguste Demetz, this institution aimed to socially rehabilitate young delinquents by subjecting them to agricultural work in order to promote their moral regeneration.
