Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1917 — Novel Juvenile Reformatory. [ARTICLE]

Novel Juvenile Reformatory.

In Dorsetshire, England, there has been established a “Republic," called the “Little Commonwealth,” which has Its own coinage and which is used as a reformatory for youngsters from two years of age upward. The experiment has proved a success. The children, sent down there from metropolitan police court to reform earned eight to nine cents an hour, out of which they paid $2.75 a week for board and lodgings. The Republic has been recognized by the home office as a certified reformatory.'