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Mettray Penal Colony, situated in the small village of Mettray, in the French département of Indre-et-Loire, just north of the city of Tours, was a private reformatory, without walls, opened in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents aged between 6 and 21.
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents.
- Stephen A. Toth
15 de nov. de 2019 · The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now this book takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's ...
- Stephen A. Toth
13 de may. de 2020 · Mettray is a powerful piece that adds much to our understandings of prisoners’ lives as well as the construction of modern adolescence and social reform. But, as is sometimes common with the history of childhood and youth, Toth’s argument occasionally views power in terms of a binary: acts of resistance or of oppression.
- Julia M Gossard
- 2021
9 de feb. de 2022 · Stephen A. Toth follows Mettray, a private agricultural penal colony for wayward boys, from its opening in 1840 to its closure in 1937. Its founder, Frédéric Demetz, aimed to rescue untended urchins from city streets and juveniles convicted of crimes from adult jails.
Drawing inspiration from the models he discovered during study trips to the United States and Europe, Demetz developed a penal colony project whose young inmates were subjected to a system of moral reform centred on a “substitute family”.
13 de feb. de 2024 · As a propagandistic depiction of the penal colony — of its ‘exemplary’ life, architecture, and landscape — the album has reached us as a piece of captivating heritage that offers an instance of how a fictional image of a place can be artificially constructed through visual media.
