Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — School for Young Rogues. [ARTICLE]

School for Young Rogues.

One of the most remarkable school rooms in the world is that of “La Petite Roquette,” the French prison for juvenile offenders, xhe system of this prison Is that of solitary confinement, the whole building being so constructed that each of the detached cells is overlooked by a warder stationed on a small observation tower. The •chool room consists of 200 cells In the form of an amphitheater, from each of which the teacher and the teacher only can be seen. Each of the youthful offenders takes his place in silence, the first In the furthermost cell and the others In rotation. The closing of one of these cell doors opens that of the next cell. The voice of the teacher is the only sound to be heard in the building.