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The reform school was closed in 2011 after 111 years of operation.
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Dara Kam, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
As a child she was baptized Catholic at a convent reform school, Baltimore’s House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, where she was twice sent by the courts.
—Tracy Fessenden, The Conversation, 15 July 2024
Prior to the Chronicle, Lisa was an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where her 2019 investigation of the nation's oldest reform school prompted an overhaul of Pennsylvania's juvenile justice system and was recognized with a George Polk Award for Justice Reporting.
—Washpostpr, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
In some ways, the concept of the heads had been in the making their whole lives: The Anglin brothers reportedly enjoyed making dummies as kids and used them to escape their Florida reform school, the book states.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
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Dara Kam, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
As a child she was baptized Catholic at a convent reform school, Baltimore’s House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, where she was twice sent by the courts.
—Tracy Fessenden, The Conversation, 15 July 2024
Prior to the Chronicle, Lisa was an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where her 2019 investigation of the nation's oldest reform school prompted an overhaul of Pennsylvania's juvenile justice system and was recognized with a George Polk Award for Justice Reporting.
—Washpostpr, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
In some ways, the concept of the heads had been in the making their whole lives: The Anglin brothers reportedly enjoyed making dummies as kids and used them to escape their Florida reform school, the book states.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
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