Reports of the Board of Trustees, 1899-1904.

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Reports of the Board of Trustees, 1899-1904.

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The State Reform School was founded in 1847 and opened in 1848 at Westborough for the instruction, discipline, employment, and reform of male juvenile offenders in Massachusetts. It was renamed the Lyman School for Boys in 1884 and closed in 1972. During the period 1895-1911 it was administered by the Trustees of the Lyman and Industrial Schools, who held monthly meetings to vote on decisions concerning the school and its students. Reports issued to the superintendent are abstracts of trustee minutes, documenting decisions regarding the status of individual students and the administration of the school.

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The State Reform School was established by Massachusetts per St 1847, c 165, for the instruction, employment, and reform of juvenile offenders. The school, governed by a board of trustees appointed by the governor, opened at Westborough in 1848. Any boy under the age of sixteen convicted of an offence punishable under state law by imprisonment could be sentenced to the school. Along with discipline the school emphasized reform through instruction and employment. The trustees could r...