Quotes About Reformatories

Goddard conjured up a specter of attractive, feebleminded women wantonly seducing decent men. He warned that the country's reformatories were full of feebleminded girls who "do not conform to the conventions of society," who were "boy crazy" or, worst of all, "preferred the company of colored men to white.

After 1939 the Church would regain enormous social influence in exercising new disciplinary functions on behalf of the Francoist state. Religious personnel played a key role en masse in the running of prisons, reformatories and other correctional facilities.