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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.
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents.
Feb 9, 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.
Nov 15, 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 repression of ...
This monograph by Stephen A. Toth, Associate Professor of Modern European History at 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 ...
most famous youth penal colony of all times. Undoubtedly, its fame was fuelled by Frédéric-Auguste Demetz, the driving force behind it, and rekindled in more recent times by Michel Foucault’s analysis of Mettray as the full com-pletion of the modern carceral system. Local and international historians such
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents.
