STATEMENT RESPECTING THE WISCONSIN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. LOCATION. The Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls is located in the city of Milwaukee, and in that part of the city known as North Point, on Lake Avenue, just within the city limits. The site is high and healthful, commanding a fine view of the bay. It is capable of accommodating 180 inmates. PROPER SUBJECTS. 1. Viciously inclined girls under 16, and boys under 10 years of age. 2. The stubborn and unruly, who refuse to obey those who properly have care of them. 3. Truants, vagrants and beggars. 4. Those found in circumstances of manifest danger of falling into habits of vice and immorality. 5. Those who have committed any offense punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, other than imprisonment for life. PECULIAR FEATURES. 1. It is an institution, incorporated and employed by the state for the custody and guardianship, discipline and instruction of the above named classes of children. The state, in default of responsible and efficient guardianship, treats them as its wards. The school was founded by private charity, and is under the control of a Board of Managers, originally chosen by the donors to its funds, and elected annually. The present statute relating to this school, provides that for each girl committed to it by legal process, the county from which such commitment is made, shall pay not more than two dollars and fifty cents per week. 2. It is designed to be not a penal institution, but a reformatory, and a temporary place of custody and instruction. Its object is prevention and reformation. 3. The system of discipline and education is specially adapted to the condition and wants of the inmates. It aims to be as nearly as possible a well regulated Christian family. Its culture is physical, sanitary, educational and truly religious, but not sectarian. |