Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1900 — The Indiana Reform School. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Reform School.

The report of the Indiana Reform School for boys at Plainfield shows the average number present for the year to have been 502, and the largest number present at any time 550, the smallest number present at any one time 'to have been 477. There are now seventyfive colored boys in the school. For various causes forty-eight boys were returned to the school within

he year. The total expenditures or the year were $58,000. If

$30,708.87, the amount paid into the state treasury by which bad boys in the institution, were counted, also the proceeds from the sale of coal tar and the support of one United States prisoner, it would be found the report says,that the cost of the Reform School to the state would'be $27,584.75.