A Reformatory for Virginia’s Juvenile Offenders
By Editor
COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON, of New York, has bought a tract of land of 1,350 acres in Hanover County, Virginia, where at his expense a well-equipped building, with the latest modern improvements, is to be erected for the confinement of juvenile offenders of the negro race. There are now three thousand colored boys and girls confined in the prisons of Virginia, and compelled to associate with the vilest and most degraded adults. Governor J. Hoge Taylor has promised that he will transfer the young prisoners to the reformatory as soon as it is built." So says the Union Signal, and the information reveals a condition that will surprise many people. With such a condition in the once highly-cultured State of Virginia—the "mother of Presidents"—will misguided people still contend that "the world is growing better"?